Often Home Depot or WalMart has plants that are not even marked with a variety name. Sometimes, it's there on the pot or you just have to hunt for it on a tag. I'm with NHBabs. I always look up the variety (if it's marked) on my phone to see what the true hardiness rating is. Often you have to visit several sites and choose the one with the most conservative rating. I usually steer clear of un-named varieties. In my zone 7, we can usually grow most azaleas, but not all. So even I need to watch carefully. In this case Enchanting Elegance could be a marketing name for a whole array of plants offered by a particular wholesaler or grower. Sort of like Garden Deput or Proven Winners.

There is not an actual rose virus named RMV. It is a group name for rose viruses that exhibit mosaic symptoms. Which rose viruses are found in Florida? If the Florida Southern Collection results are typical for the rest of the state, your virus could be one of the following: Rose Spring Dwarf (RsDAV) was found in 21 of the 150 plants tested. Blackberry chlorotic ringspot virus (BcRV) was found in one plant, Prunus necrotic ringspot virus (PNRSV) was found in 6 plants, and Rose yellow vein virus (RYVV) was found in six plants. Four plants had mixed viruses - two had RsDAV and RYVV (Paul Neyron and Pulich Children) and two had PNRSV and RsDAV (B. rugosa ruba and Red Pinocchio). The above results were reported at the 2018 National Clean Plant Rose meeting by Kevin Org of Texas A and M University. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 2018 National Clean Plant Rose meeting presentations are available at: https://ucanr.edu/sites/ncpnrose/Network_Business/may_2017_agenda/2018_Meetings/ (I cannot see any way to directly link to an individual page in a Power Link presentation.) On the first day of the 2018 meeting, Kevin Org presented the above results of his University's (TAMU) testing of 150 roses in the Florida Southern Collection. Please note that the most common virus found is Rose Spring Dwarf. This virus would be of particular concern (to me) as it is aphid transfered. https://sites.google.com/site/rosespringdwarf/home

Sorry, but the two issues are not at all the same!! Rick, your apple blossoms are just showing some weather damage......nothing to worry about and nothing to treat. Fwiw, a great many early blooming trees and shrubs will produce flowers that show this sort of damage....typically just the result of a heavy rainfall. We see this all the time in our wet PNW springs......and we grow a heck of a lot of apples here in WA state!!

Hi Popmama! It’s happening to pretty much all the leaves. They started fading soon after I separated them and repotted into a 511 mix. I did a little investigating and it may have been related to an acid/alkaline problem with the 511. I thought flushing the soil regularly would take care of the problem but no luck, they kept fading and then developed these brown spots. They’ve been outside all summer. I just put them in the garage last night. I don’t want them inside until I figure out what’s wrong and treat.