I noticed when I was doing research online today that one of the documents featured a headline like "Rose Rosette Disease found in private gardens in NJ's Somerset County" That is where I used to live. I am saddened to think that the roses I established there are at risk. It seems to me that once one is living in places where multifloras were not planted for soil stabilization, perhaps the problem cannot be not so bad. Evidently in parts of NJ, PA, OH, VA, and bits of the Midwest it can be a serious problem. I'm hoping that it won't be a problem here since we are so far from natural reservoirs of the disease. But I guess anything could happen. I'll continue cultivating other fragrant plants.
