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Does rose rosette exist in aust
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Posted by youngquinn vic (My Page) on Sat, Jun 4, 05 at 2:25
| A couple of years ago about five of my roses started displaying strange malformed growth. I puzzled over this and took leaves to my local nursery and asked for help No one seemed able to identify the problem but eventually One of the staff at Magic Garden Roses said it looked like the plants had been affected by drift from something like roundup. The problem only affected one side of the bushes with the leaves being malformed stunted and discoloured.Two bushes died two I shovel pruned and I consigned my favourite (brandy) to a hospital pot in my backyard intensive care unit where it recovered after twelve months.After reading some posts on the roses site I am beginning to think my roses might have been affected by rose rosette. I would be grateful for others opinions on this. Has anybody else had a similar experience regards pam |
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RE: Does rose rosette exist in aust
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No from the description definitely Roundup.
go and read the (very long) thread on it. |
RE: Does rose rosette exist in aust
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| Thanks Fran C I did go back and read thread on roundup. It certainly seems to fit the description of what happened to my roses. I dont think it could be translocution in my case as I have never used it but it sounds as if there are cases of spray drift . Its all very confusing as the roses were in two different spots in the garden . All in all Id rather it be roundup than rose rosette (guess Id better have a diplomatic word to the neighbours) thanks pam |
RE: Does rose rosette exist in aust
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I was in my local rose nursery yesterday and there was a man being quite aggressive to the nursery owner that her suggestion of Seasol spray on his box hedge had killed one end of it.
Further discussion led to the fact that, yes, his neighbour HAD been spraying weeds with Roundup... quite close to the hedge, but the man still took some convincing..
Seasol would only have benefited anything it came in contact with - but Roundup.... just a little drift is plenty on anything with a broad leaf... |
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