There's a silver lining to many dark clouds. Our June was similar except we had a little less rain. July, so far has had temps of highs in the upper 60s and lower 70s.

Yesterday, I had to wear a long sleeved shirt outside as it too cool to be out without one.
Temps within a few hundred miles around us are in the upper 80s and 90s. I suspect though, we'll see hot temps as we get further into July and then be wishing for cooler weather.

We've had no rain for two years. Then it rained non-stop from March til mid-June. Since then, it has been in the high 80's and dry as a bone. I've three JBs. I'd like to think my milky spore is paying off, but the grubs just drowned.
Climate Change, here we come.

I've begun to think seriously about rain resistant roses. but there are so few. Most of my roses really look terrible.

I'm praying for better weather for the late bloomers.

Maybe a tent for the rose bed???

My blooms look terrible, lots of pitting and balling BUT there are a zillion of them...and the ones that look decent have that funny sour smell.TONS of spiders and spider mites. I have early blackspot but am hpoeful for fall. My bedding plants are dead ) :

Here in Northern CA we had odd weather also. It was atypically cool and wet for late spring. In June I actually made fires in the woodstove at night which was a first as did many other people around town.

On the bug front there much fewer aphids for sure but an explosion of Rose Weevils. I heard today from another lady I know in town who has had the same problem. More this year than ever before. Bizarre.

Kate

We've had weird and rotten weather of the opposite type. We tied the record for number of days without rain, then had a smattering in early June. Nothing since then except above average temperatures. The ground is dry as a bone, and we're starting to have fire warnings. Our average rainfall for June at my house is about 3"; we had about 1/3". We've had rain shortfalls for months. The roses are hanging in there better than the other plants--not much in the way of blooms, but at least the plants are alive so far. No rain forecast in the foreseeable future. For now I'm lugging buckets of water to the most desperate plants every morning. I'm ready for a good frog-strangler.

I am also hoping the grubs drowned.

Oh no, they are still there, lurking. Just hybernating later into the year. NO desire to move about in this weather like I have been feeling...Sorry
That is what a greens keeper at the local golf club tells me. They are just waiting to move about, and get an appetite once the ground gets warm and the soil starts to dry out. Watch out...:-(

I too, have had the worst summer ever so far. It is like living in a cave..Dark, gloomy and raw for days on end.
Now when the sun does come out for a day, all my plants wilt and the new growth can't take the heat..Like a shock to them.

I too saw NO june bugs, but I havn't seen them like I use to years ago for the past few Junes.I havn't seen any around here for at least 4 years.

I remember June nights being warm and toasty. But seems to me the Junes and August nights are slowly getting cooler and cooler, with only July being the hottest month..If we are lucky. Last year, we only got about 5 days of weather hot enough to make you want to go to the beach, in July!
In Augusts past, like last year, it never made it over 80 degrees with some nights into the 40's..

I have a problem with my roses though. I just noticed this am. All the leaves and buds are falling off all my roses, along with some branch tip dying back...Can this be from just plane ole rot, to much rain, and lack of sunshine?

Thanks

Meyermike,

As best I can tell, the specific symptom of waterlogging is this: bottom leaves on each main shoot are affected first, and the disorder moves upward precisely leaf by leaf. Affected leaves are pale green and somewhat limp, with yellow veins. At least this is what a couple of my roses showed when we had of constant rain.

The best thing to do for long-term improvement is to raise the soil level around the roses so they have drainable soil to root into.

I the soil is very well draining, but the problem is is that the leaves have not had a chance to dry for almost a month. I noticed lots of tiny black spots on the yellowing leaves before the all completely fell off leaving be just bald cains and a few die back branches.

Do you think that the sun, ow that it will start to dry things out, might generate new growth to come back again.
All the leaves fell off as if they thought fall was fast approaching. That is exactly the way all my rose shrubs look after a long summer, when the cooler weather starts to move in. I think they have been duped, so the growth stopped. What do you think?

I think you should start over with this story. Where are you (state would help a LOT), and what are the roses. If you are east of the Appalachians, most readily available roses aren't up to the climate normally. It just can take a summer or two for the problems to find them.

Black spots on yellowing leaves are blackspot and maybe also Cercospora spot disease. These are fungi that spread externally from leaf to leaf during rainy weather. Apparently it is what defoliated your plants last fall. It is worse this year because of more rain, and, as M_G said, it is normally worse the second and subsequent years.

If you want the roses to survive the winter, you probably need to begin regular use of a fungicide such as Bayer Rose, Flower Disease Control applied in a tank sprayer.

If they did not bloom or bud this June, you may have lost the plants to winter and you are looking at shoots from the rootstock, a different variety.

Please take M_G's advice; add your location to your header and list some of the roses you are trying to grow.

God, I wish I knew the names...

Before I began seriously growing them, as a beginner, I just bought what looked good and planted it. Threw the labels and pots away. Not anymore now..

This climbing rose always looks great every spring. I have had it for at least 5 years. It hasn't lost a cain yet. It is about 8 feet tall with about 8 cains that tall.
It flowered in which I will show you a pic, but as soon as it did, it didn't take more than a couple of days for all this rain to just wash them away. I was so disappointed.
The one of the only days we had of sun, after all the dark gloomy days, burnt the red pedals as soon as they felt the heat...Then rain again, knocked them all off, followed by the leaves.

I live in Massachusett, 20 miles from the coast. Zone 5.
This was the worst year ever for low clouds, fog, drizzle, and cool temps for the entire month of JUne. These particular roses usually do very well, all the way till fall. But not this year...:-(

It looks as if these guys thought fall was already here.
Sorry about lack of detail the first time around. I thought my location was in my profile...Me bad...

I like the recomenadation of bayer treatments.

Thanks everyone

Endless rain though very few balled and rotting blooms which has happened with less rain in previous years. I just started getting thrips this week on Kronprincessin Viktoria. Lots of BS and cercospora on the HT's. A number of other plants are behind last year this tim the lotus which are usually big and in full bloom are still just buds.

lots of rain for weeks then for the last 2 no rain, but unlike catsrose I have had lots and lots of JB's. They have begun to wind down like usual now but at its peak I was killing over 100 a day every day.

Thanks everyone...Now that it is not raining, just maybe I can begin to even spray!!lol
I can't beleive how saprk everyone here is..
Thanks a million...:-)

Mike

I would guess Connecticut for the OP's state--Henry_in_CT.

Seems like it's wild weather across most of the U.S.