Master Gardeners recently visited a lovely garden but to our dismay we had to tell the owners that all their roses were infected with a viral disease, called Rose Rosette Disease.
This is a serious disease that is found in the wild — and invasive — multiflora roses and in cultivated roses. It was first identified in Canada in the early 1940s and has since spread across the United States.
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