Re: Re: Theresa Bugnet rose

Cathy - what are the symptoms of this malady?

Pam Evans
Kemp, TX
zone 8A
----- Original Message -----
From: Cathy Carpenter
Sent: 11/22/2004 6:58:51 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Theresa Bugnet rose

One caveat on the Rugosas...at least here - they are very susceptible 
to "rose rosette" a virally caused 'rose cancer' spread by (?) mites. I 
have had to dig and destroy two of my roses thus afflicted.
Cathy
On Monday, November 22, 2004, at 05:41 AM, pdickson wrote:

> Ceres,
> I have had a couple of times where I to thought it was too wild.  I 
> has put out a couple of suckers in the last 2 years.  I moved one and 
> should move the other.  I don't usually like Rugosa Roses either. It 
> has some of the really thorny canes near the bottom but on the whole 
> it is almost thornless.
> It has had to grow in some really lousy soil.  I had a pool there 
> several years ago and when they filled the hole they bought me "top 
> soil".  I don't know where they got it but it is some of the worst 
> soil I have ever seen. It is very tight clay goo.  I keep trying to 
> add more organics to it to loosen it up.
> I love a garden in the winter almost as much as the summer if it has 
> lots of texture and color.  That has always been my goal.  You have to 
> remember that I live in Western Oklahoma where things don't thrive 
> they survive.
> Tricia

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