Hey Florence,

I'm no expert, but it looks like a textbook (Ann's e-book) RRD witches' broom :(

No herbicides used in the area?

Eric

I am so sorry, Florence, but it IS Rose Rosette.
And New Dawns seem especially susceptible.

I want you to try this.
Water the rose heavily this afternoon.
Tomorrow, put a big plastic bag over the sick part, tie a tie around it, under the sick part.
And take the cane off (that has the sick part on it) as low as you possibly can and as close to the ground as you can.
Then you and Bob will have to watch the area where that cane was cut off.
You have a chance of saving that rose. Not a good chance, but a chance. let's see if we can save it.

Thanks Ann and Eric.

I was afraid it was RRD-----Sure looks like all the pictures but I was kind of sticking my head in the sand and hoping it wasn't.

this is the first time in all these years that I've noticed it.

Ann--thanks for the instructions. We will take care of it and hope for the best-----

BTW-----How do I get your book that has been mentioned ???
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I know how upsetting it has been for everyone who has lost precious roses. I especially remember Pat talking about all the roses she lost.

Wish me luck!!!!

Florence

Here's the book.

Here is a link that might be useful: Rose Rosette E-book

Florence, your New Dawn has always been a big highlight in my rose viewing here. You know you have my empathy. Do try to save it. Otherwise, just dig it out, get a new one and move on. I recall that sick feeling when I saw Erfurt, and from there it just kept going from one rose to the next, until I was so hurt, I just came inside and cried.

First, I was mad, then I was hurt and then I decided to never rose again. I now am in denial and still grow roses but I have started interspersing with other things (as you already do) so that there are not so many holes in the landscape. Still not there to have it all filled in but working on it. You will too.

Really sorry you are dealing with this horror too. I just noticed my first RRD this week as well (also my first RMV)--not a good week for roses in zones 6&7. I think that's three of us now with RRD in the last couple weeks.

Ann, I forgot to ask--how long must the soil sit until we can plant another rose in an ex-RRD rose spot? Or can we never plant another rose in that same spot?

You can replant in the same spot.
But you need to wait to let any roots left from the RRD plant sprout. (In my garden that's a year for the ones planted in the last ten years).
No need to dig out soil.

The danger is that whatever air currents dropped the mite there may drop another mite there.
Some of you have seen our roses. Over 500 in about thirty (maybe more) different beds spread across a hilltop, hillside and down an hill into a swale.
This morning I realized that I've got beds that have nver had RRD. And one place where within 15 feet I've had three cases of RRD.
And two cases where I lost James Galway and Mary Magdelen.

Three in one small area and none in 25 beds...hitting myself on the head in a true 'duh' moment.
The three in one bed weren't adjacent to each other ...not in physical proximity...not in the years that the infection happened.
Their problem is an arbor just downwind of them. I think. Best guess for now at least.