Two questions: Does there need to be any time delay between spraying the WiltPruf and cutting the bush down? _just allow enough time for the wiltpruf to dry (and trap the mites) When Ann says "intersperse" the new plantings how far away from the site of the old infected bush should I get, a yard or 2 or 10? - depends on the size of the multiflora. The one in your photo is probably only two or maybe three (if you've had drought) years old, so the roots won't be massive. Think under the drip line of the canes and then double that. The closer up photo has something that we don't talk about much and than is the red on multiflora new growth. I do have multiflora on our farm (we keep trying to eradicate it, it keeps winning). New growth isn't reddish on pure multiflora. On some multiflora species (ramblers andsome polyanthas) there is reddish tinge, but it quickly disappears. That bush view simply looks sick for both the reddish color and that now abandoned black canes to the right. Reason: multiflora with RRD grows later in the season than other multiflora; also multiflora with RRD tends to keep its nutrients as sugars and is very slow to convert to starches and that leads to late fall growth being killed by winter. Most roses with dead canes have canes that are grey or even grey brown; multiflora and other roses with dead canes tend to have black canes; I think that's because winter kills them dead quickly. The thorny-ness issue. When multiflora is hyperthorny along with other symptoms, it's an easy call. But at least on cultivated roses (I watch RRD on mine a lot more that I spend time with multiflora) I see major variations in thorniness based on I-don't-know-why. A fairly thornless poly cane may sprout a hyperthorny stem and then that stem will yield a less thorny smaller cane. And no other potential RRD symptoms will appear. A really sick bush in the wild will end up with many different symptoms, some differing from cane to cane depending on when the bush got sick in that part. Now about herbicide spraying. If you've soybeans or some of the other GM crops near you, you need to know your neighbors and if they are using the GM crops and spraying Glyphosate (to which the GM crops are immune, that's why they are GM). I have a neighbor who has planted both GM soybeans and (I think) GM wheat and corn. I've never had problems with drift from his herbicide spraying and it's happened maybe 200yards from our side yard at the closest. When the State of Virginia did a major herbicide treatment of multiflora and other invasives along their interstates, they killed 'em dead. FWIW. In my part of east TN at 1100' Dogwoods are just coming out and redbuds are almost done. Sick multiflora (along Hwy 11W) this morning was still reddish in its new growth. If that helps.

Thanks so much everyone! I lost Voila Francois (super sad about that one because I was in love) and a lot of my plants had buds that literally dried to a crisp before opening, so in addition to these being pretty, they are survivors! O cool! Thanks, Nate, for the heads up on photo option :) ANd yes..I guess the ones peeking through green are not sad and yellow - they're angry and tan Lol ;) *waves* Hi, Nancy :) Glad your computer is up and running.

Besides what you list, clematis - Bees Jubilee, Niobe, Vyvyan Pennell, Willy (that one is new though), Rose Blanc Double de Coubert opened today, tomorrow should be Zephirine Drouhin, spirea japonica, a euphorbia, rock rose, azaleas, a sorry camellia, Lonicera sempervirens, centaura montana, foam flower, ravenswing - cow parsley, hawkweed - leapord plant, pyracantha, kerria, sedum, ajuga, woodruff, nectaroscordum, waterperry (veronica),a few annuals,a few viburnums - V. tribolum and V. sargentii Onondaga, Rainbow Leucothoe, hellebores, bleeding heart - dicentra spectabilis, iberis, broome, baptista, solomon's seal, those pink creeping strawberry plants, regular strawberry plants, cornus though not showy,a blue perennial salvia I started from seed is just opening, I'm not sure which one, not S. nemorosa though one of those is getting close too, maybe viola freckles is still blooming, one red astilbe is starting, the rest not yet. Other things have finished, others are getting ready to begin.

rouge21_gw(5 (but I am betting 6 with climate change)(Ontario)) Your Bobo's are beautiful! I just bought 5 for the side of my house, and was having a bit of buyers remorse because I keep seeing all of the beautiful Limelight's in my neighborhood, but was attracted to the Bobo's because of their flowering. The side of my house that I am planting them on is somewhat narrow, in the sense I didn't want anything too large that would grow into my neighbors driveway, which is why I thought Bobo's were a great fit. I live in zone 6a, and the side of the house get's constant sun, do you have any suggestions on how to maximize their size so they get as large as yours? The soil there is clay, so I know I need to add my own, but anything else? Thanks!