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Apr 27, 2015 6:40 AM CST
Name: Neal Linville
Winchester, KY (Zone 6a)
Bulbs Charter ATP Member Cottage Gardener I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Irises Roses
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Thanks, Vickie! I hope a cure is in the near future too.

An interesting thing I read was the RRD itself doesn't kill the plant, but it lessens the plants ability to survive the winter. That may explain the escalation in the disease around here during a period of over 10 years when our winters were particularly mild.

Another tidbit I found interesting was that the virus was found in California in the 1940s. It is thought that it didn't spread much from there because multifloras weren't planted much west of the Rocky mountains.
"...and don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous." Rumi

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