[Arid_gardener] Roses dying

[Sue Bass]

I have a question about the death of your roses.  What do they look like when they die?
I'm asking because I have lost all of my roses this past summer and no one has been able to come up with a name for what is happening to them.  What I have
been seeing on mine is that the stems become blackened, as if they have been burned and the leaves dry up and fall off.  All of my roses were in pots, by the
way and during the heat of the summer, the pots were moved under the shade of an Acacia to protect them.  That blackened stem seems to throw everyone.  I'm
just trying to find out if others have encountered this too.
Alan, if you are reading this, I ran this problem by Mike Jepsen and the gentleman who spoke at our last Rose Society meeting and neither knew what is causing
this.  Mike said he lost a rose with these symptoms also.  Its a mystery!
Sue Bass
Master Gardener

crowelln@aol.com wrote:

>   Every year I plant roses and every year they die in spite of adequate water and nutrients.  I suspect black spot or some other disease.
>     I also have had tomato plants develop curled and dying leaves, usually from the bottom up.  Now I want to plant more.
>      Question:  Is there anything I can treat the soil with to prevent this from happening to my roses and tomatoes?  If not, must I spray, and with what?
>
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