Hi everyone,

I've noticed a couple of my rose bushes are having issues this season.

One of them is having weird die-back starting from the top of the cane....the top 1/3 of the cane is blackened and I was just going to prune it off when I noticed that some canes are entirely black.......yikes!.......anyoone know what to do?

Another one of my roses looks like it is trying to camoflauge a snake......the entire cane is streaked in an orangy-brown pattern that almost looks like snake skin........it doesn't look like the same issue as the 1st rose bush, but I could be wrong,.

I've had roses for 7 years now and this is the 1st time I've been presented with this weirdness......

I'd upload pix but don't know quite how.....

thanks!

----lucia in coco county,N CA