"Elphaba" wrote in message
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Bizarre about the pictures. I went on and posted them here on my site:

http://www.dancinman.com/~sirius/mygarden/bgleaves.jpg
http://www.dancinman.com/~sirius/mygarden/bgleaves2.jpg
http://www.dancinman.com/~sirius/mygarden/bgleaves3.jpg
http://www.dancinman.com/~sirius/mygarden/bgleaves4.jpg

I'm in Memphis, Zone 7. Thanks again!

The third photo seems to show blackspot. Unless it
involves a lot of the leaves, you can always pull off
those leaves infected. It's a fungus and there are
various treatments, including organic (involving
baking soda, I believe). Or, as I mentioned earlier,
you can just ignore it if it's not hurting the plant.

Here's a link to the American Rose Society:
http://www.ars.org/
If you find the link to Articles on the front page,
you will see a list of articles including several on
rose diseases including treatment.

There are other sites that show rose diseases,
unfortunately I lost most of my bookmarks in
a recent computer crash so I can't give you
directions. A google search on rose diseases
would be useful. Actually I did my own search
and found one of the links I lost! It's a good one:
http://members.tripod.com/buggyrose/

Hope that helps -
Gail
near San Antonio TX Zone 8