Rose Diseases-Keeping Your Roses Healthy and Elegant
Red roses are known to symbolize passion, romance and love, however, like any other plant, they are prone to different types of rose diseases as well.
Even if you grow hardy flowers like floribunda, ramblers, hybrid tea, climbers, standard and patio roses, they are still exposed to various rose diseases and infestations and this
warrants a regular plant health check up. Regular evaluation of the plant’s health should be once a week.
1 – Greenfly and Aphids
Check the roses for greenflies. Minor infestation can be taken cared of by plain soap water sprays while heavy ones need systemic insecticide to get rid of them.
Another alternative is combining systemic insecticide as well as fungicide to combat rose diseases. Most greenflies shed their outer covering, which is colored white in their typical life cycle and people often confuse greenfly from whitefly because of this.
2 – Utilizing safe and organic black spot spray
Black spots on your roses can also be dealt utilizing the combination of systemic fungicide and insecticide. Black spots are one of the most common problems that infest roses. It results to decay of the leaves causing death and loss of leaves.
Warmth and moist encourages the growth of black spots similar to the potato blight. These black spots have yellow halos around them and can be treated with mixtures of fungicide and insecticide. Follow the safety instructions on each product label so that you can take care of the black spots safely and efficiently to prevent many types of rose diseases.
However, there are organic sprays that prove to be more effective and safe. It is in the combination of water and skimmed milk. Spray the mixture to both lower and
upper areas of the leaves. Black spots can be prevented through the formation of the friendly fungus with this spray.
3 – Fertilizers and feeds
The best method to keep your roses healthy and elegant is through maintaining healthy practices such as proper feeding and organic fertilizers.
Garden composts and well rotted cow dung are extremely beneficial to your roses, which could result to larger blooms, excellent foliage
and resilience so that it can survive infestations from insects and diseases.
A 2 inch layer of these composts is enough to give the roses the necessary nutrients to keep them healthy.
In addition, it lessens the loss of water and prevents the weeds from growing, which are both essential when the weather is warm and dry.
Put all of these ideas into practice and you will find that you won’t have any rose diseases.
