Oh my goodness. What a bad case of Spider Mites. Hate those critters. I have never seen them bad enough to effect the blooms like that. Usually the evidence is more so on the leaves.

Suebelle

Oh no! Tonight we are having some showers so hopefully something will give some of those poor babies some relief. What variety are they?

Honestly I might have grabbed some miticide right off the shelf and sprayed the poor things. Eeeekk!

I thought about it SoFL. I don't know the variety. I bought one like this, two orange ones that have a tag that says Moms Orange (but I can't find a rose with that name online), and I bought two stripes that I'm trying to figure out what it is. It seems like a mini-flora, but I can't tell.

Yuck. They should donate those poor babies to rose lovers who will clean them up and save them! Nobody's going to buy them looking like that! They'll probably just toss them in the trash.

I'd ask for a discount. I've gotten %50 off before just by asking :)

Ewwwww!!!!

Carol

Not so sure that's even spider mites; have never, ever seen such conspicuous webs. Could be any kind of spider and one not native to your local area would be bad news. I'm with Buford!

I'm guessing eggs were laid on the plants and then the warm spring weather caused them to hatch.

All the nopes.

Holy crap!

Eww eww yeah. I didn't think about that but yeah. I would not want to introduce some sort of agressive or pesticide resistant pest to my garden. #notworthit

Now you have me worried! I bought an adjacent rose tree that looked clear, but now I'm going to have to quarantine it.

WOW That is terrible! I can't believe they even let people see that. They obviously don't care. Lisa

Hmmm - don't think that is spider mites. That looks like bag worms which are a problem in spring. Easily treated with organic (or not) Dipel. Ugly to look at but not a long term problem or really a big threat to your gardens if you treat it. I would be more interested with what is going on with the leaves.

Big time mites on the foliage, no doubt about it. Anyone would be nuts to bring that infestation to their home garden...

Actually, I have seen a spider mite infestation that bad. Once. On my first mini rose. They went away with spraying, but it totally defoliated and lost all blooms.

Those poor roses are doomed and most likely end up in the trash bin.

Looks pretty close to this photo: Two spotted spider mite. More info and control: Two-spotted-spider-mites-in-home-garden-and-landscape.

More than once at Walmart, I saw plants on the rescue/discount table that were perfectly fine, other needing a little dead heading or lacking water. I wonder why they don't simply give the plants what they need?

Kublakan, I like your striped rose. Hope you post photos of the orange ones too when they bloom.

Kublakan- the pink stripey rose looks a lot like Flower carpet pink splash- its quite cute, stays low, but mine tended to grow arms...

http://www.helpmefind.com/rose/l.php?l=2.65268&tab=1 not sure if its available outside Aus tho..Actually, most of the user pics don't look like the one I had (or yours), but the rose tag (first pic posted) does..

and those webby roses..eww! I'm more than happy to pick up discounted when abused roses; just got a $ 9 dollar potted Valencia a couple of weeks back because it got scorched in the heat. A bit of judicial trimming and coddling,its now covered in new growth and several little buds. Those, I would recoil in horror from- i have enough problems with spidermites without importing uber infestations of em... hehe

The Lowe's by me had roses and other plants that sustained cold damage for 50% off. I didn't want any of the roses, but I got a flat of potato vine for $3, 2 look dead, but the rest look ok. I also got some dianthus, which look great, the blooms just got zapped for $3.