The Nashville Rose Society serves all of Middle Tennessee by sharing knowledge and information about our national flower, the rose.
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”
Rose Rosette Disease is a devastating disease of roses. It makes the rose unsightly because of abnormal growth of the rose plant tissue. Symptoms such as witches’ brooms, excessive thorniness, enlarged canes, malformed leaves and flowers are associated with this disease. This disease has been reported since the early 1940s but only in 2011 did research demonstrate that it is caused by a virus, aptly named the Rose Rosette Virus. Continue reading “Combating Rose Rosette”