The knockout punch that wiped out nearly all the stars of the Tulsa Rose Garden started in, of all places, a hedge of knockout roses. Typically deemed tough and disease-resistant, knockout roses are ...

Q: I’ve enjoyed my beautiful heirloom climbing roses for years. My neighbors planted red Knockout roses adjacent three years ago. Now my roses have begun to morph into something ugly. The bush is ...

Walter Reeves answers question from AJC readers, ranging from the universally fatal rose rosette to spider silk stretching from tree to tree.

Dear Neil: Why would my roses die back, first turning yellow, then brown and then black before I have to cut them off? I’ve never had this problem in other states. A: I fear your plants might be ...

QUESTION: I planted three floribunda rose bushes in a small garden last year, purchased from a well-known rose breeder. By midsummer all three looked like the enclosed photo. After some research, I ...

In his day job, Dr. Mark Windham teaches and does research at the University of Tennessee’s department of entomology and plant pathology. When I reached him by phone, he’d just emerged from two hours ...

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DEAR NEIL: My rose bush is producing leaves that simply curl and turn brown. It also had different blooms than I was used to. I took samples to a nursery and the expert said it was a fungus and that I ...