What Is The Rose Afraid Of?

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Rose is one of the most beloved garden plants. And every owner of his own garden wants to see her healthy, fragrant, blooming, beautiful. But once again examining the rose bush, the gardener suddenly notices that the leaves on it are eaten, they have turned yellow or lightened, they have ugly dark spots or the so-called "rust", and the rose itself does not please with a healthy look, its bud is clearly overpowered by aphids. Knowing what pests and diseases the rose is afraid of, you can easily help the garden beauty to overcome them and delight you and your loved ones with their blooming appearance

If the rose is overcome by powdery mildew

This dew is a whitish or slightly blue bloom on the tips of the leaves. It can also be on the stems, the very bud of the rose. Most often, they fall ill with powdery mildew in the form of lashes. Such dew quickly spreads through the plant if, in hot, sultry weather, you forget about roses and do not regularly water them.

As a prevention of the disease, we advise you to choose more resistant varieties of roses to powdery mildew, also do not forget to mulch your plantings so that the soil moisture is stable. As a treatment, the bushes and buds should be sprayed with biological products designed to combat powdery mildew.

If a rose is attacked by a red spider mite

It is possible to determine that this pest has attacked the rose by the yellow light spots on the leaves, which are translucent. On the petioles, the mite also infects the rose. Dry hot weather helps it spread rather quickly through the plant.

Again, you need regular watering of rose bushes, especially in the heat. If you see that the defeat of rose bushes by a tick has begun on a massive scale, you need to treat the plants with chemicals, such as Rogor, Keltan, or Aktellik. Treatment of roses with biological products is also required.

Rust on rose leaves

It appears not only on the leaves, on their lower part, but also on the shoots of roses. This is a fungal disease. Ripening, the fungus creates the appearance of rust on the plant, that is, spots of a rusty-brown color.

To prevent the fungus from infecting the entire rosary plot at once, try not to plant the bushes too closely, leave space between them for ventilation. Immediately remove damaged leaves from the plant, work with gloves, and remove the torn leaves and shoots affected by the fungus away from the plot and burn.

If roses are often affected by a fungus, it means that they do not have enough trace elements to feed the plants, because their immunity is weak and cannot resist infection. As a treatment, treat the rose with fungicidal biological products.

Are the leaves of roses eaten by a leaf-gnawing bee?

When this small insect takes hold of a rose bush, a strange kind of damage appears on its leaves - the leaves are gnawed at the edges large and round. Such a bee lives in the ground, in burrows. Alas, this bee will not be able to resist. And it will hurt roses negligibly, not on a global scale. One thing calms down - this is a very rare insect that not every ornamental garden visits.

Pink juice sucker - common aphid

This insect, almost invisible to the eye, can mess things up in the rose garden. Her love and taste of all life is the juice of the stems of a rose, its shoots, buds. Aphids on roses have a green or black appearance. It is widely distributed in the gardens of Russia, especially in the middle part and in the south. Many gardeners have already learned to fight against it and very successfully.

Plants to get rid of aphids need to be sprayed with a solution of soap and ash, also suitable biological products. To prevent the appearance of aphids, destroy ant nests and the ants themselves that have settled next to the rose garden. But in addition, to help the gardener, help insects help the gardener to destroy aphids on the leaves of plants in the garden - a ladybug, a lacewing and even their larvae.

Oh, the cuckoo's … saliva is not sweet

There is such a parasite - the cicada insect. Its larvae, surrounded by foam, sit on the stems of many plants, including roses. The larva sucks its juice from the plant. Because of the foam around it, the larva is called cuckoo tears or foam slobber. Such foam and its larvae will not bring much harm. However, she can lure viruses into the garden, become their carrier. Therefore, it is better when watering a rose, knock down the foam from its leaves with a stream of water.

Alas, these are not all diseases of the rosary. A rose can be overcome by gray rot, various caterpillars and slugs with snails, leaf fleas and even cancer. But we'll talk about these pressing "pink" problems next time.