Delaware flowers are being killed by a disease spread by invasive microscopic rose bud mites, but some common sense steps can help protect the roses people associate with grandmas and traditional ...

Walter Reeves answers question from AJC readers, ranging from the universally fatal rose rosette to spider silk stretching from tree to tree.

In late January, around 300 people gathered for a Collin County AgriLife Extension meeting regarding a disease outbreak that had killed rose plants en masse. Mark Chamblee, of Chamblee Rose Nursery in ...

Q: What causes the lower leaves on my roses to become dry and dusty? A: You are describing spider mites. They like dusty conditions and temperatures higher than 90 degrees. Mites suck juices from ...

The knockout punch that wiped out nearly all the stars of the Tulsa Rose Garden started in, of all places, a hedge of knockout roses. Typically deemed tough and disease-resistant, knockout roses are ...

Q: I’ve enjoyed my beautiful heirloom climbing roses for years. My neighbors planted red Knockout roses adjacent three years ago. Now my roses have begun to morph into something ugly. The bush is ...

Roses infected with rose rosette develop a dark, purple-red discoloration that can be confused with new growth. There is no treatment for the virus, which is spread by wind-blown mites. David Pulliam ...

I have two problems with my rose bushes. I have four Jackson & Perkins roses, three climbers and a hybrid tea. I have hard clay soil, mostly backfill from when the house was built. Every year about ...

QUESTION: My roses produced lots of new growth and spring flowers. But all of a sudden the leaves began to turn yellow with a red tinge. Do we need to feed them more than once a month? ANSWER: The ...

Three new eriophyoid mite species all coming from different genera were found in Xinjiang, China. One of the new species is the first representative of the genus Paracolomerus to be described from a ...

Inspired by the discovery of more than 1000 eriophyoid mite species in China so far, Dr. Ji Wei Li and his team collected mites from four different areas across the autonomous region of Xinjiang, ...