Diseases – Raging Rosarian http://www.ragingrosarian.com Raging Rosarian is a gardening blog celebrating, ranting, and raving about the cultivation of roses, heirloom tomatoes, and other examples of entertaining greenery. Fri, 05 Jan 2018 13:01:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.1 http://www.ragingrosarian.com/wp-content/uploads/tinyicon-45x45.png Diseases – Raging Rosarian http://www.ragingrosarian.com 32 32 Biological warfare: unleashing the hounds http://www.ragingrosarian.com/blog/2018/01/05/biological-warfare-unleashing-hounds/ Fri, 05 Jan 2018 03:42:47 +0000 http://www.ragingrosarian.com/?p=3436 Seriously, aside from grapefruit sized mosquitos, is there a more annoying insect than the common aphid? These voracious pests can decimate an entire collection of plants, seemingly overnight, leaving the innocent gardener more melodramatic and distraught than Mel Gibson’s Gladiator. This was me in May. And let me tell you, I was pissed. worse, the […]

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]]> One James Galway down http://www.ragingrosarian.com/blog/2017/12/21/one-james-galway-down/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 20:56:24 +0000 http://www.ragingrosarian.com/?p=2332 There isn’t much more unpleasant to a gardener than watching helplessly as a young plant develops symptoms of an incurable disease. Last fall, one of my James Galway shrubs started showing telltale signs of RRD (Rose Rosette Disease), a virus (spread my a microscopic mite) that can decimate and disfigure roses. Unfortunately, once you are […]

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