Hi!! I have a rose like that too. Why do you think she is dying? It seem to have nice sprouts on it, no?

At my previous garden, I had roses that always showed spots like these in late winter. The spots would go away with warmer weather and the canes always greened up once they started leafing out. Yours don't look bad to me.

When it comes to JBs, inoculating my whole property with milky spore worked better than expected. I went from hundreds and hundreds to perhaps a dozen per year after that. And the spore spread to the neighbors' yards, so... you're welcome.

That sucks!! I'm so sorry!

My Princess Charlene is like that and I was enthused she has some green! That shows how little I know about roses yet... 🙈 I'll be so disappointed if she dies!

Where are you, Ikaye, please which State? West Virginia? (wv). This could help people help you.

If you are looking for those magazine picture perfect roses, don't! They were probably Photoshopped. Everybody has challenges in the garden and with their roses. You can either give up or just enjoy all the lovely blooms and stop stressing over spotty leaves and/or bugs.

I ignore the spots and other stuff. Most go away as the season progresses, and I wait until June, or so, to see if I have to remove the more stubborn areas.But I've never lost a rose to this kind of thing. Now is way too soon to give up on your roses. There is a product called Phyton that is a drench (it is not an insecticide) that can help with canker. I recommended it to Trish (titian) in Australia, and she has used it for several years on her diseased roses, and it has helped quite a bit with some of them. Diane

More specifically, it is called Phyton 27 drench. Diane

The problem isn't the leopard spots on the canes. It's what is lurking beneath the mulch.

I would have thought it's too early to prune in Z5 WV. The forsythia haven't flowered here yet although the weather is pushing growth. Its meant to get freezing again at night here soon.

I agree, Vapor. I should have mentioned that Phyton 27 is an antibacterial and antifungal used to treat bacterial and fungal cane canker. When Idaho roses had an epidemic of bacterial cane canker about 12 years ago, the chief plant doctor at the U of I Research Station near here recommended Phyton to treat this disease. Diane

Lots of my roses get spots like that on the canes; I don't worry about it .Actually I think it might be due to the excessive heat of the sun here in summer on a weak plant,so when I see it I know I have to improve the soil in which the affected rose is growing,mulch it better, etc.

When do you all consider it time to prune? Becuse of the unseasonably warm weather the last few days a few of my roses already have tiny leaflets. I'm zone 5 like lkayetwvz5. But all my roses are on the south side of a wall so I would say they are in a warmer microclimate.

I live in zone 7 and won't start pruning until about Mar 20. It's better to prune a little late than too early. Diane

The old saying is to prune when the forsythia starts to bloom. That is a good indication that the soil has warmed up enough for the plants to start actively growing. Those tiny leaves you are getting now are coming from the energy in the canes that was stored last fall. It is not coming from the roots being able to begin to take up nutrients and feed the plant.

Thanks... I'm trying to keep my hands off of the pruners! I can't wait to cut off that ugly black winter kill, but I'm going try to wait it out.