Deer
If you reside in a rural situation where both rabbits and deer cohabit, your roses are doubly at risk. When there is snow on the ground deer become braver in their search for food and will stray into...
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Leaf rolling sawfly
Leaf Rolling Sawfly This insect can cause alarm for the devastation caused after a sawfly has laid her eggs on the leaves of roses can be visually alarming in a bad attack. The parent actually injects...
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Proliferation
Proliferation This is one of the weirdest phenomena of the rose. In early summer a bloom will appear to be opening quite normally, then it will be noticed that another bud is appearing from the centre...
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Red Spider Mite
Red Spider Mite This tiny spider loves warm airless conditions and will thrive in the greenhouse or conservatory but is also becoming more prevalent in the garden, especially in hot dry periods. The...
View ArticlePests and diseases that affect roses
As with all plants, roses can become infested with pests or damaged by disease. This should not however be a reason for not including them in the garden for as my father, Peter Beales, is often heard...
View ArticleRose Slug Sawfly
These little slug like creatures, the larvae of black fly, are the culprits that eat away the flesh of a rose leaf, leaving behind only a skeleton of veins. They will finish one leaf completely before...
View ArticleRabbits
Pretty little bunnies are not as innocent as they appear and they particularly enjoy feasting on roses. Young rabbits relish the young tender shoots that are within their reach and will systematically...
View ArticleViruses
Viruses are not contagious between roses in the garden and if present will have been there since the plant was propagated. Most commercial growers produce their plants by budding scions of a variety...
View ArticleBlack Spot
As the common cold is to humans, this must be the most common rose disease and there are very few cultivars totally resistant to it, although some fair better than others. A few black spots are not...
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Caterpillers
Caterpillars These little creatures will crawl up the stems of roses and with abounding enthusiasm, enjoy a meal of rose leaf. Often they will have been present on the plant since the mother moth laid...
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