You're being a rose hypochondriac & spraying too much - Bayer Advanced should give good coverage at a two week interval. Where are you located? In your photo I'm seeing a little spot anthracnose, daconil residue, spray burn and maybe some yellowing from waterlogged soil (Texas?)If it weren't for the spray burn, your foliage would look pretty good. Why do you think there's a problem?

Cecily - you are making my day!! I sincerely hope you are right. I'm in Eastern NC and we recently had a deluge on top of my watering the day before with my new drip hose system - it was water logged to start with and then it rained all day.. I knew the yellowing of some of the leaves was from that. I had to spray - it was time - but I bet I am overdoing it - and hope you are right. I do see the spots though . Do you say just leave them alone - I know I am totally obsessed with making this garden grow.

Thank you Cecily - ps - what do you spray for fungus and insects with?

Are you having an insect problem? Just curious as to why you are using the malathion.

We have aphids - they are mostly on our hibiscus - which are all over our patio and other spots in the yard. I am spraying to prevent insect infestation - in Eastern NC - we have all the insects and they most definitely will be on my roses -

Denise, we lived at Camp LeJeune for four years. The first summer there were TEN named hurricanes. Boy did my roses look crappy! The soil there was particularly thin -- adding tons of composted manure helped immensely. You DO have a wonderfully long growing season - you should have blooms in December most years.

I'm growing antique roses in northern VA now (Pentagon) and I don't spray a darned thing. Aphids get washed off with a garden hose. For Austins in NC, the Bayer Advanced is probably your best choice.

Definitely pesticide spray damage. Agree, there is no need for both the Bayer Advanced and Daconil. Use the Bayer Advanced Disease Control every 10 - 14 days. Daconil isn't giving you any additional protection. Aphids are a minor problem in the spring, they will go away soon. Overuse of malathion will kill of the beneficial insects and worms in addition to the "bad" bugs. Step away from the sprayer.

I have spent the entire day doing more research in this forum, helpmefind and concerning what happened to my roses. I definitely do think I damaged more than the DARes - with that extra spray routine I did on Monday with Daconil and Malathion. The reason is that I sprayed a lone climber far away from the rose garden and when I checked it this morning - it had the same burnt at the edge of the leaf look to a couple of it's leaves. It is Climbing Blaze and really only two leaves looked burnt. I have just about decided to no longer even spray for insects and would like to think I could do the same for fungus/black spot.

Unfortunately - I had another problem crop up today. I posted pictures in another thread of my round Drift garden (3 years old) and the damaged buds on every bush. This happened literally overnight. I am waiting for opinions from this same forum and hope you all will go take a look. I fear spider mites. I am sure no animal ate the tops of these tiny buds out - a rabbit would have to be pretty crafty and agile to manage getting just the tops and not damaging any branches.

I also have read so much about using oils - but not to use them if the temperature gets too hot - well, it was 85 here the last two days.

I will NOT be spraying malathion or Daconil anymore - these leaves look so messed up and I only can hope that the bushes will recover. i am still getting yellowing at the bottoms of many of my bushes and pulling off the yellow leaves as they drop or turn completely yellow.

I did water with a strong stream every bush this morning - thinking that possibly some of the insecticide/fungicide spray I sprayed on Monday would possibly be removed.

Thank you everyone for any advice and attention you have given this issue. I know I am having beginners problems and with my bare root garden - if they can just make it to growing a healthy root system - maybe they will survive all of this. The dirt was prepared very well by my husband - who is a total green thumb and Biologist - but he says roses are over his head!!

Thank you!

Denise