Make sure to feed your roses at least twice a year to ensure they are kept healthy and with good resistance to disease, we recommend Empathy After Plant Rose Food. Spray no more regularly than every fortnight on active growth. Ideally in dry, cool and cloudy weather but during hot and sunny spells do this during early mornings or evenings. Re-spray roses after heavy rainfall to recoat and protect the leaves. Roses are non-resistant to this product, so it can be used regularly. Ready Mix Spray Sulphur Rose Liquid copper adheres to leaves better than powdered copper and won't shrink away from the leaf edge as it dries, thereby ensuring better coverage and protection. During the winter while roses are pruned and dormant, fill a watering can with a diluted mix of Sulphur rose and water or Jeyes Fluid and attach a shower head rose to the can. Give each rose 5 litres of the mix, this should kill off any overwintering disease spores and give your roses a clean start for the following season. Try to avoid catching the foliage with the mixture as it may scorch. Still No Joy? When there is considerable new spring growth, stop oil and copper and start summer sprays as oil and copper mixes may burn the new foliage.

Roses, like other plants, are a food source for garden pests which will need to be controlled if the plants are to perform well in the garden. The original version of Sulphur Rose is the powder which you mix with water at home - using 5g of product per 1 litre. Treating up to 40 roses per season and is a more cost effective solution. Some rose waters can certainly cost a premium, and this could be due to a high concentration of rose, the product’s size, or even the quality of the other ingredients added to the formula. However, more expensive doesn’t always mean better. Compare the size, ingredients, and production processes of the products you’re interested in to make sure that you’re getting your money’s worth. This tiny mite loves warm airless conditions and will thrive in the greenhouse or conservatory but is also becoming more prevalent in the garden, especially in hot dry periods. The mite is extremely small and will not often be spotted even though it infests in great numbers. It is the fine web that it weaves between the leaves and the damage it causes to them that is the giveaway. The leaves will become pale and limp, sometimes almost dirty with a bronze discolouration before they fall helplessly. The obvious solution is to spray the undersides of the leaves but by this time much of the damage has been done. If the plant is in a pot under glass, move it outside for a while and spray it with water occasionally; the spider mite will not enjoy its new habitat and will move away to a more appropriate area or die. Plants in the garden should be washed down on a daily basis until the mite has left but try to do this in the morning or evening when the sun is not too powerful or the leaves will scorch. Rose Slug Sawfly

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Spray the roses regularly (every two weeks) with PLANT health Spectrum to prevent the disease from taking hold.

When your roses are clean, don't spray at all. You may be surprised by how long your roses go without showing upany disease or pests (or not). The old adage, prevention is better than cure applies here though, so be prepared to spray 2 or 3 times to eradicate stubborn diseases. A regular spray with a rose tonic such as Potassium Phosphite ( Uncle Tom’s Rose Tonic) will help roses to keep healthy. Use alongside a proprietary feed during the growing season to keep your roses happy. If you reside in a rural situation where both rabbits and deer cohabit, your roses are doubly at risk. When there is snow on the ground deer become braver in their search for food and will stray into the garden. In the USA where the deer are less timid, this is a bigger problem than that faced by us in the UK. Perimeter fencing will help but the temptation is to cover this with climbing and rambling roses, thus placing them at the deer’s height. If a little extra pruning on the outside of the perimeter can be tolerated then the problem is solved but by planting the thorniest varieties, such as some Rugosa you may deter the deer even more. Leaf Rolling Sawfly This Rose Society UK book gives the reader more information about many different pests and diseases with colour pictures and proposed treatments. This book describes only the major pests affecting roses, whilst there are many chemical products on the market the Rose Society UK encourages environmentally friendly products. This is one of the weirdest phenomena of the rose. In early summer a bloom will appear to be opening quite normally, then it will be noticed that another bud is appearing from the centre of the unfurling flower. This is proliferation and no one knows exactly why it happens. Some experts believe it to be viral, and it does tend to occur repeatedly in the same varieties although not consistently on every plant in that variety, but the general consensus is that it is genetic, with parts of the reproductive area overproducing. Rose Replant Disease (specific replant disease)Dr. Ava Shamban is a board-certified dermatologist in New York City, and the founder of Ava MD. She’s an expert in medical and cosmetic skincare, and touts the importance of skin hydration when it comes to caring for the complexion. Method 1 is the most effective way to keep roses looking good all season long. Although it is more time consuming and costly, most keen gardeners prefer this method over the second. At first sign of new spring growth, spray one application of a PLANThealth Copper Fungicide Liquid. This is highly effective resulting in very clean, glossy, healthy-looking roses and controls a wide range of diseases and pests. It is advisable to alternate between the 2 different types of spray to prevent a build-up of resistance to the one spray.

In wet summer weather the outer petals on a freshly opening flower often become fused together, the flower is then referred to as being ‘balled’. This is most often found on the many petalled varieties with naturally tight buds, particularly some of the Bourbons and the Hybrid Teas. If full sun follows prolonged rain the petals that are congealed together then dry out to become a crisp shell which will prevent the flower opening. If this happens the bloom will rot within its cocoon and fall away or remain on the plant in a revolting brown state. In larger gardens this has to be lived with until the roses are dead-headed, when the unsightly specimens can be removed, but in less time consuming smaller gardens, or where specimen roses in prominent positions are affected, the outer petals can be carefully teased away to allow the flower to open naturally. Proliferation Organic Super Sulphur and Organic Super Spraying Oil (like all sulphurs and oils) must not be mixed together.All rose waters are NOT created equal,” says Ashley White. “A lot of formulas are unfortunately diluted or have additives like fragrance or dyes that render the calming benefits of rose water useless.” So if you really want to get the effects of rose, look for a spray with a high concentration of it. A good rose spray may also include other ingredients that support the calming benefits of rose, such as aloe, witch hazel, or marshmallow. Value Many rose varieties are susceptible to pests and diseases. Simple spray programmes can prevent pest and disease problems. Summer Spraying Ashley White is an esthetician and founder of Skin Class Hero Studios who specializes in everyday skincare rituals to improve the health and appearance of skin. Spray your roses before you see problems occur, this should be ever y 2 weeks from April. Alternate the products each time you spray, we recommend using Sulphur Rose, Uncle Tom’s Tonic and SB Plant Invigorator, they are all safe, natural and bee friendly products.