Right now the quick heat has made lots of foliage redder than it has been in previous years. It should start transitioning to green with the cooler weather this weekend. Some things beyond color you may want to check: leaf margins. Are the teeth regular or are they somewhat random? Are the stipules overgrown? is there any spiraling of the new growth as if one side of a stem is growing faster than the other? Re axil breaks: two at one site don't bother me a lot, three or (much worse) more than three do bother me and make me watch them really closely. 86 here today: I expect to see sunburn on the new growth both leaves and canes. Let us know how it progresses....good luck.

I like Michael's first two principals. Until three years ago I would have liked the third, but I lost a huge Tea Noisette and I never saw sick growth up any cane, only coming out from a mature basal cane as if it were a new basal break. I think what happend was a bud axil had a RRD vector mite bite, that went down the very woody stem, and the first non-dormant leaf axil (one of those that were there when the cane first emerged) showed really hideous growth. That growth even spiraled as one side of the cane outgrew the other. Re photos above. I'd watch Belinda's for a while. I think it's ok. But I don't like the edge of that leaf in the last photo. Have you changed ferilizers recently? Something is going on/wrong with the teas in these photos. Background: when a spray of buds happens, the oldest bud blooms first and is easily seen, then the subsequent buds' stems continue to grow and as those buds mature, that first and spent bloom is often hidden by the subsequent blooms. It bothers me that your tea buds are being overgrown on most of these stems almost a week or two BEFORE the oldest bud opens in bloom. That's not supposed to happen. IS there any chance you had a yard crew use some sort of special chemical mix on your yard (or on a neighbor's yard?) Email me..we're going to be in Asheville tomorrow at the western NC Arboreteum for their rose exhibition and DH and I are giving two talks in the afternoon. There are some other things I'd like you to check on this new growth...is there pith? Or can you flatten these red stemswith gentle finger squeezes? Are the buds all there, sexually? (Some RRD sick roses lack major bloom parts.) Ann

Nothing overly suspicious to me. But watch that the new leaves turn green. It should happen within the week. John

I feel for you Katherine - I've got some weird new growth on one of my roses that's worrying me. Your new canes are big, but they're coming out of an even bigger cane. The foliage is dark, but the shape/size looks normal. The thorns seem odd, but I don't grow 'Eden' and have no idea what's normal for new canes on that rose. Hopefully someone who grows 'Eden' can tell us more!