Even though the garden center rose guy told me to take out my little rose bush that has the spotted roses, I just can’t do it. It has put on quite a show recently due to the record breaking rains we’ve had the last two months.
The little trouper is doing its best for you after the rain ! I should give it another chance - perhaps the spots are due to the lack of rain and the heat earlier in the year !
Black spot fungus can be treated Lou Ann by pruning away infected areas immediately and spray with fungicides there is no need to remove the rose bush, don't handle the effected leaves when wet that's how it spreads:)
@henrir@pcoulson The bush has Rose Rosette Disease, there is no cure. Since I do not have any other rose bushes that could be infected by this disease’s mites, I have not taken it out. It gets canes that are red with hundreds and hundreds of thorns. I have cut those canes off. The little spots are just a side effect of the disease. It is incurable and travels through the tiny mites that float on the air from bush to bush. You have to remove the plant and cannot plant roses for several years. The same disease took out my Knock Out Roses by my pool’s waterfall a couple of years ago.
