It's not a positive, but thanks for reporting the R. moschata. I hadn't a report of it getting RRD before.

This year, try to figure out the wind patterns in your garden and where the vector mites may have dropped and how they moved once in your garden. Then design for max air flow.

What you don't want is places where mites drop (the downwind side of solid fences, of dense trees, that sort of thing.

Ann

I am sorry. Maybe it will be fun to plan the beds differently like you meant to remove the roses.

Oh, how disheartening, Ogrose! I agree with Kippy, try to make it a positive by having a second chance to build up your dream garden from scratch.

Ogrose,
That is so terrible for you to lose so much , i wish you could have some of mine that seem to be ok in Idaho so far. I still watch over them expecting someday I might be faced with the same fate.
I was thinking to scale back the roses a bit and choose some other kinds of plants so that if my roses get hit I would not take it so hard. In Spring I want to plant pink flamingo colored huge ruffley poppies on a long stilt stem, and the giant white columbines at the garden center were breathtakingly beautiful.
Over last summer I actually downscaled from 13 roses to just 5 of my favorite, giving my friends what they wanted. As I get older, stiffer and wrinklier every day it reminds me to prioritize what matters most, what I can and can't live without. My son's dear dog Chef was very sick for a few days and then yesterday morning he found old Chef dead. I cried all day yesterday, but today am looking forward to Spring again, planning my garden and a pretty grave for Chef.
That is the great thing about rose gardening, the HOPE.
Linda