by Marty Reich, Master Rosarian, Editor of the Rose Leaf
Continue reading “June Rose Growing Notes”
The Nashville Rose Society serves all of Middle Tennessee by sharing knowledge and information about our national flower, the rose.
Continue reading “June Rose Growing Notes”
So you have pruned your roses and cleaned up the beds some time around now. It is still too early to pull the mulch very far away. We could have a freeze until the middle of April and did last year. If you spray, you have done that as well, soaking the mulch as well as the almost bare bushes. It is so much better to get ahead of blackspot and spray routinely than to let it get ahead of you.
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David Cook’s presentation to the Nashville Rose Society is an excellent resource for the types of insects that attack our roses in Tennessee. He explains how to identify the culprit based on the damage to the plant, and gives organic solutions for dealing with them.
Click here for David’s presentation, “Roses: Back on the Menu”.
I assume everyone is still battling Japanese beetles and now we are seeing spider mites.
Continue reading “And for our next garden pest – Spider Mites!”
Japanese beetles! These little monsters appeared here in mid-June last year, but were seen in some gardens the first of June this year.
Continue reading “They are Back! Japanese Beetles”