Texas Gardening: Alert ROSE LOVERS: ROSE ROSETTE disease is in Dallas, 0 by drthor

drthor wrote:
I'd like to educate my fellow rose lovers about this horrible disease called "ROSE ROSETTE"
It started in my garden two years ago and I HAD to remove lots of my lovely roses.

I just found out that more than 200 climbing roses that are around the Four Season Hotel in Las Colinas, have been infected. The hotel is only one mile from my house.
I was at NHG last Sunday and many people are coming to the nursery with infected branches. Definetely this virus/myte is going air-borne in the Dallas area.

At this point there is NO CURE, the only thing to do is to REMOVE the infected plants.

Please read this two articles:
http://plantclinic.tamu.edu/2011/07/13/rose-rosette/
http://agrilife.org/citybugs/2011/07/rose-rosette-disease-tr...

If you identify any infected plants report the problem right away at the Dallas Estension office at: 214-904-3053