So very sorry. At least you are educated enough to recognize the virus. I am a mini(as opposed to MANY:) collector of hosta, only a couple of dozen. I find myself at the big box stores examining their hosta and carrying on an internal struggle. Hands vs brain. You KNOW you're not supposed to buy hostas here! But look how big they are! they could fill up that empty spot immediately. Put the pot down Kabby! This spring I pulled up a whole clump of jagus Christopher crinum and tossed it, virused. I have almost eliminated my entire canna collection, I had more than 40 kinds at one time. Virused. At least my daylilies only get rust in the fall which is a fungus but still unsightly.

It depends on the rose and the problem. I've found that I can accommodate a rose that isn't the color I'd hoped, or isn't the size I'd hoped (although I do try to move them) and I'll try for years. I can't bring myself to remove a healthy rose. But a rose that clearly isn't going to be healthy for me? Early removal is better than later. Blackspot is here to stay, sadly, so severely affected roses need to go bye-bye. Roses that aren't tolerant to heat and humidity also can't stay. Neither are roses that, for no good reason, begin to commit suicide as soon as they cross the property line. I watch slow growers. I try moving them. I give them more than a year, a lot more if they're generally healthy. But if they can't do what they're supposed to do here, we need to part company. I have several that I received this year, still in pots, that will need to find a new home. One, a Biltmore rose that I thought would surely be at home here, has gone through several cycles of leaf loss due to blackspot. Another came to me with chlorosis and it hasn't improved much. I will give it a little more time and see if it can get better. A third seems to be entirely unhappy here, although I've tried moving it and even repotting it. It will improve for a time, but then lose its leaves and look pathetic again. Surprising to me, since it was hybridized in Tennessee. I have only so much time, space and energy to put toward roses so they need to be able to thrive here. If they can't do that, I figure that I shouldn't have them and they shouldn't be here. I haven't always felt this way, but over time, I've realized that saying yes to a sickly rose or one that will never thrive means saying no to a rose that would be happy and do well here.

Our weather king sits on his throne his meteorologist skills he hopes to hone The words spew forth in repetition as we anxiously await tomorrow's prediction The dreaded S word he starts to spew while we at home make soup or stew Then off we race to the nearest store our bread and milk we hope to score We race back home to batten down hatches and bake our cookies in batches and batches Alas again a false alarm I just might do that weatherman harm

Thanks for all the help. I picked it up cheap when it was in decline at the start of the autumn last year so never noticed then. Bought from a wyevale garden centre, know they have garden centres in Wales but not Ireland. Went in to warn them on my way home today and noticed a very worrying looking S&S as well so informed the manager who was very blasé saying he would replace my GS. I told him i didnt want another one but they should really look into where they source their hosta from. anyway, lesson learnt and guess I will follow the advice of ukhostaman et al on here about only buying from trusted sources now. A little bit gutted especially in my first real year being a committed hosta grower and GS was 19 eyes too but will not make this mistake again and many thanks for your advice again let the clean up commence