"Ann and Larry Peck
For over 15 years, the Pecks have been dealing with Rose Rosette as interested, unfunded amateurs. First, from a distance, as the disease spread into the rose garde at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate TN, where RRD lead to the destruction of the garden.
Then the disease reached their county and they collected symptoms, infection times and low impact ways of dealing with RRD. They required three symptoms before declaring the disease to be RRD and that the roses' odd growth be aberrant, excessive and/or unexpected. They redesigned their rose gardens to increase air flow and reduced loses from a high of 12 roses per year to two or three.
Because the 'word' about RRD instructed folks that RRD was seldom a danger to cultivated roses. they realized early on that the word was wrong. They amassed lists of infected roses and symptoms and spread the word through gardenweb.com and then through their website http://www.rosegeeks.com (its current version).
By traveling, talking to professionals, visiting gardens throughout the Central and Eastern US, they have come to a way of low tech growing roses even though the disease pressure in their own area has increased exponentially."
http://anla.theknowledgecenter.com/anla_docs/docs/Government%20Relations/Pest%20Disease%20Alerts/RRD-Summit-UDel.pdf
Here is a link that might be useful: link for above
Maryl (Okla. Zone 7a)
jim1961 / Central Pennsylvania / Zone 6
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