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All your hard work put into cultivating your roses can be destroyed easily by fungus or rose diseases if you are not careful during the cold months. As roses become more frail in the cold, they will also be more susceptible to fungi when it becomes warm again.

Even if they get through winter relatively unscathed, their weaker immune systems will be more open to the heat and humidity that the spring rains and summer heat bring. In this way, the roses might contact a fungal infection that destroys them, despite all of your best efforts.

There are a number of common diseases you might encounter with your roses:

Powdery Mildew

Powdery mildew is a fungus. As explained by its name, it produces a bright white powder along the tops and bottoms of the leaves and even along the stems. If you neglect to see to the mildew, the rose will not mature fully as the leaves will drop off.

Rust

Rust on roses looks just like rust on metal will. It appears on the underside of the leaves and quickly spreads to other parts of the plant as well.

Blackspot

Hybrid teas are completely resistant to blackspot, but other roses have been known to get it. If there are circular black spots on the leaves of the plant that are 1/16 to ½ inch in diameter, you might have the disease. Treat the disease right away to avoid destroying your plant's foliage.

Rose Mosaic

Unlike most of the rose diseases that are fungi, the Rose Mosaic disease is a virus. The signs of this disease have mosaic patterns of green and yellow that are discolored.

The only way to stop this from spreading throughout your garden is to remove the plant entirely. You must also clear all clippings and leaves of the diseased plant to make sure it doesn't contaminate other plants. If you cannot stop the effects of this disease, you will need to bring in professional help and ask about commercial treatments that will solve the problem.

How can you avoid giving your plants these diseases? There are a few things you can do. Always water the soil around the rose and not the rose itself. Do take care not to let dead leaves pile up underneath, so clear the beds of roses often. Cut the diseased blooms right away and throw them in your trash can. Prune regularly. Close all cuts in the plant with Elmer's glue. Feeding your roses regularly will also give them plenty of strength to fight infections.

Finally, you can choose disease-resistant roses whenever possible to avoid the problem in the first place. If you grown plants that are resistant to diseases and fungus, there is less threat of promoting threats to your plants.

Article Source: http://www.articlemanual.com

Moses Wright loves to work in his rose garden. He started this site to help fellow rose gardening enthusiast. You can find more free resources on rose gardening and rose diseases and treatments on his site.

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