If you are a rose person (and you know who you are), roses are not only the centerpiece of your garden but are the plant that commands most of your attention. I’m not a rose person, if you can’t tell.

Walter Reeves answers question from AJC readers, ranging from the universally fatal rose rosette to spider silk stretching from tree to tree.

Although I’m trained as a horticulturist rather than a plant pathologist, it is necessary in my field to have some understanding of the problems encountered by various kinds of plants and find a way ...

Carleen Bright Arboretum Director Janet Schaffer walks through an area where several roses infected by rose rosette disease had to be removed to prevent further spread of the virus carries by small ...

The Rose Rosette Disease does not appear at this time to have a cure and most people at this point haven’t even heard of it. Fortunately for me, I heard a speaker at the Ag Extension Building speak on ...

“My roses were looking kind of funky last year, and I am concerned about rose rosette disease. How would I know if they have rose rosette disease?” — C.T. Rose rosette disease is a plant virus that is ...

Rose rosette disease (RRD) is a rose disease that has been in existence since the 1940s but that did not have a wide impact on the rose industry or those of us who grow them for many decades. However, ...

Long prized for their striking flowers and wonderful scent, roses are a garden staple in landscapes around the world. But it is not uncommon these days to see rose plants in which something seems off.

Question: I have various kinds of roses in a small flower bed. An unusual thing has happened to one of the rose bushes. This spring it started growing very small leaves -- really small, and there are ...

Telltale signs of a rose bush infected with rose rosette disease are clusters of deformed red leaves, called "witches' brooms," with an overgrowth of many tiny thorns. If your roses don’t look quite ...

In recent years, Rose Rosette Disease has become a serious issue. It is quite difficult for the home gardener to witness a great source of summer color succumb to this disease. RRD was first reported ...

A new rose cultivar might smell sweet, but will it resist disease? Texas A&M AgriLife is leading a team of researchers to ensure the answer is “yes” to alleviate the estimated $10 million in annual ...