Thanks, Everyone, for the support and well wishes! Thanks, Kippy! Portland Rose, thanks so much. Based on other people's experiences, I am hopeful that I caught everything early on but worrying is in my nature and it's difficult not worry. You have great taste in roses and much more knowledge than I do, so if I had to start all over with only your cuttings I'd have a great beginning. Oh, Ingrid, I know. He felt so badly! I'm never using that stuff again, he said. But with a little more color, if you know what I mean. I still don't know what he was thinking but it's over now, thank goodness. My ASL is not the most well-behaved rose but I do love it. And would be so unhappy if I had to put it down. And yet, I think about other friends here who have had to take down true heirlooms -- and there is no comparison in the loss. Thanks, Janet. Hugs! I am hoping too. I have a path lined with roses right in the line of sight from our house to the rose that introduced the RRD and I am hoping it didn't get in there. MZ, I know! I would have never known about RRD if I had remained casual about growing roses and had not begun to read and participate in the rose forums here. And I would have just kept that growth and let it infect my garden. Like many other people must be doing -- and unknowingly making a problem they don't even know exists worse. :( Thanks again to all of you.

I noticed my thread is coming back to life, so I thought I'd give an update. Just about all of my plants appear to have recovered and are doing fine. Delayed, yes, but flowering and setting fruit nonetheless. The hardest hit of all of my plants were the Big Boys (1 of which I lost completly, the only one I lost), the Mortgage Lifters, and the Cherries. All of the plants that have recovered now how fruit on them, nice looking normal fruit. The Big Boy just has a few fairly small pea-sized fruit, but fruit nonetheless. I left them alone for the most part until they started putting on new, healthy growth, and then once they had put out some new suckers, I went and removed all of the wilted, heavily curled growth (a lot of it was dying off anyways). I still get sad looking at them since they are a good 1-2 feet shorter than my other plants, but I'll get fruit from them and they should be a good height before too long.

It is sort of a "rock and a hard place" choice. On one hand the damaged leaves aren't doing the plant any good but on the other hand pruning them right now only adds additional stress to the plant that is already stressed. And without seeing the plant I have no idea how much actual damage there is - minimal or max - so how much pruning you would have to do is unknown. I tend to let the plant do its own thing rather than add to its difficulties. It will shed the damaged leaves all on its own as it hopefully begins to recuperate. How much it will bounce back all depends on the type and degree of herbicide exposure. I'd focus on eliminating any future possibility of exposure to herbicides. But if the damage is minimal perhaps consider removing only the most severe damage and leave the rest alone - a sort of compromise position. ;-) Dave

My suspicion is a water deficiency but I did not want to point ppl to that decision. It gets some serious hose time every 3 or 4 days w/o rain. That poor subdivision layout drainage control mound it is on appears to be half super compacted subsoil and half mulch. Its quite interesting. At the beginning of the summer it had a day with droopy leaves which made me think it needs more water than most things I plant. So that leaf damage is typical of Cornus florida drought stress? I didn't even see it on my established ones in 2012 when we had a real hot summer and drought.