It sounds like blackspot. However, I should warn you, roses are not for black
thumbs! They are very fussy, require maintenance and need to heavily fertilized
in order to product UNLESS you bought antique roses, then you may have good
success. The mini's are usually on their own rootstock and perform very well,
but please be certain you have problems before you start spraying pesticides.

Herbicides are very dangerous chemicals, unless you used Neem Oil, then it's a
lot less toxic.

On 22 Apr 2004 08:23:53 -0700, (Cindie Light) opined:

I am trying my black thumb at roses this year. I have one shrub type
rose ( I was not bright enough to actually look and write down the
KIND of rose I got it was pretty so I got it...duh!) But I also
planted 3 minature roses at the same time in the same place. I put all
of them in a raised bed...added good neutral soil with a granite sandy
mixture so it drains well and mulched around it with cedar mulch. The
minatures are doing very well almost the height of the shrub! but the
shrub has new growth leaves and buds..yet they are droopy. It has some
purple dots very few on a few of the leaves but not the new
leaves...some yellowing or mottling on a few leaves. Any suggestions??
I have put some rose fertilizer around it and have sprayed some
fungicide incase this is the beginning of black spot. It may be
getting too much water as Im watering it well every other day...need
advice on central texas rose gardening..

thanks for the input!!
C.