A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 18 - Christina King on Rose Rosette Disease

June 16, 2018 00:25:08
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 18 - Christina King on Rose Rosette Disease
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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 18 - Christina King on Rose Rosette Disease

Jun 16 2018 | 00:25:08

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Show Notes

I don’t grow a lot of roses, just a few favorites, but birds plant the occasional multiflora rose seed here and there around the garden. One of the resulting seedlings looked really strange when I noticed while weeding in an out-of-the-way spot the other day. It was all disfigured, and red, and—uh-oh—rose rosette disease comes to my corner of Nowheresville.

I hear from a lot of you who have encountered rose rosette disease not on some weed as I did, but on your prized rose bushes. I invited research scientist Christina King of Star Roses and Plants—known for more than a century for many favorite garden plants, including the most popular roses today, the Knockout series—to explain what this disease is all about, and what promise lies ahead for fighting it. 

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