So sorry to heat this Moses. I hope you can get a nice rebloom cycle soon that looks great.

We have had a lot of rain, but I think my problem is the thrips.

what you think? several inches of rain or thrips? All my blooms look like these.

We been getting lots of heavy thunderstorm rains this year and we had a unusual May with cooler temps & more frosts than most other years....

Roses are late blooming here this year Moses...

We have had high winds & heavy rains the past 3 days...

But at least were getting rain as some areas are in bad drought

...Just a weird year...lol

Daniela,

I just ordered Bonide Systemic Insecticide (Acephate-which is reported to smell strongly of rotting dumpster effluence!), in case I am dealing with thrips....especially their larval form which can infiltrate unopened/just opening rose buds. I do not think they are thrips at work because my: Quietness, True Honor (fast becoming a favorite!), True Sincerity, True Inspiration, and a few others opened mostly very well. They are Bliss and Pinkerbelle that have been well damaged.

My spray date is this coming Monday, so I will give the Bonide Systemic a go, and maybe a follow-up next spray scheduled after Monday, just to be safe. If the odor is horrific as reported, I may regroup my 2nd. spray. Nothing like having a rose garden that smells like a garbage dump, especially with summer's heat! 😝

Moses.

I have had a lot of wind damage to my roses--like the entire first flush, very late, of my two Rouge Royale blooms looked like they were broiled in an over. I've got to remove all the blooms today. The Prince's blooms looked a bit wind ratty, too. But other dark roses like Munstead Wood and Ascot look fine. They are the tough guys. Augusta was really windblown and looking saggy and sad. Other tough roses were Evelyn, Eglantyne, and of course, the Orange Dude and Julia Child. Petals made of steel on them.

Yes, Dianela, that looks like thrips, and I'm sorry. Even here where there aren't many insect pests, certain roses get thrips damage, always the divas like Evelyn and Augusta Luise. They were not very bad this year, though. And all Idaho is in a statewide drought right now--too dry for thrips even. Diane

Dianela, I think that's thrips. They were really early here this year (abnormally warm winter and early spring). It's an interesting combo of factors on who gets them badly... certainly more fragrant roses. But lotsa petals/slow openers are also big. My second flush of Savoy Hotel a couple of weeks ago was maybe the worst I'd ever seen on an entire flush... I kept meaning to take pictures, because it was so incredibly awful, but I got sick and it went low on my priority list :-D