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.

If you are a rose person (and you know who you are), roses are not only the centerpiece of your garden but are the plant that commands most of your attention. I’m not a rose person, if you can’t tell.

Long prized for their striking flowers and wonderful scent, roses are a garden staple in landscapes around the world. But it is not uncommon these days to see rose plants in which something seems off.

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 ...

Rose rosette, a virus spread by a mite the size of a speck of dust, has forced landscapers to destroy thousands of rose bushes in Dallas-Fort Worth in recent years. Counties in and north of the region ...

In Franklin County with agricultural land and dairy farms in abundance, multiflora rose was once viewed as a valuable addition to the landscape. Now viewed as an invasive species, it is under attack ...

The Rose Rosette Disease does not appear at this time to have a cure and most people at this point haven’t even heard of it. Fortunately for me, I heard a speaker at the Ag Extension Building speak on ...

“It has been identified as a viral disease that’s specific to the genus Rosa, including Rosa x hybrida, which is our prized garden rose,” said David Trinklein, horticulture specialist for University ...

For years, it has seemed like Knockout Roses were invincible. No longer. It is still true that most Knockout Roses are producing blemish-free bushes full of red, white, peach or pink blooms, but some ...

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 ...

Austin Fife, a PhD candidate at the entomology laboratory within the UF/IFAS North Florida Research and Education Center (NFREC) in Quincy, recently discovered a new rose pest in Tallahassee. This ...