Any Rose Growers Out There?

I have a lot of roses, and more up at Mum’s garden, and yes, it’s been a rough start. Lots have black spot, and are dropping leaves early. Having said that, mine have flowered wonderfully, and after that initial flush, now have much healthier growth, and are budding up well again.

Take off as many of the black spotted leaves as you can, plus any dropped off onto ground and bin, don’t compost as they carry disease. I think it’s possibly all the rain to be honest. Rather comforting finding that big gardens have had issues as well, not just hobby gardeners. I have spent all this afternoon very hard pruning a big rambler. It had a wonderful flush of flowers, but dropped a lot of leaves. Hoping it will now put out healthy new growth, and lots more flowers until Christmas now. It’s an Alberic Barbiere, fabulous rose👍

Edit…. I do prune my roses, but don’t feed them. I keep an eye out for early problems like greenfly, whitefly, but it’s definitely blackspot that has hit hard this year. That said, I have had lots of blooms, only one rose up at Mum’s struggling, and that’s spent too long in a tub, so only just finding a new lease of life.

That's interesting Takethedogalong. Thanks for your comments. Conversely with my roses, blackspot has been less this year than last. Perhaps the lack of blooms may be a partial legacy from last year. At Mannington, blackspot seemed very evident on their roses. I've been cutting back relatively hard after the flowers have gone over. I'll see what the next flush is like in September.

Quite the reverse here, John - we have perhaps one of the best rose displays we have had for years and - unusually, no sign of blackspot at all. The climbing roses in the front garden have done particularly well - but I did prune them really hard in February / March.

Just shows what a lottery rose growing can be😁 are you quite near the coast R&R, just wondered if this might affect your roses at all?

Open fields at the back of the house ttda, facing the sea which is probably a mile or so away as the crow flies.  Takes about 5 minutes in the car to get there as I have to go through the town. We are susceptible to north / north-easterly winds when it blows and we certainly know about it then! I don't really know whether our climate affects the roses - the only thing I can say is that it's very unusual for us to get heavy snow in the winter

Thanks R&R😁 I ask because quite a few of my roses were brought home from a fabulous rose nursery (well inland) down in Cornwall. Grower there said it could sometimes be a challenging environment, so I just wondered. 

About 12 years ago I created a rose garden at the front of the house. Purchased roses from a specialist nursery and for many years they all grew vigorously, beautiful red HT. This year has been very disappointing. They are suffering a lot from black spot and the bushes don't don't look particularly healthy. Now after 12 years they are getting to the end of their best I don't know. I need to treat the black spot to see if that improved things.

David

12 years isn’t that old for a rose DK, with some exceptions. Mum has some that are 60 plus years old, and I have some around 25-30 years old. Some are very blackspot resistant, some are very prone. As you say, treatment/prevention of BS is key. Mine have a lot of healthy second growth and flowers now, but I’ve a couple of Albertines that need some serious attention. Both around 26 years old. One I think might be damaged, is it’s support frame blew down in a gale, and we did some temp repairs until I can prune it.