Rust

I have a rosa madame isaac perier. The scent is wonderful but each year it falls foul of rust. I spray but nothing seems to work and by this time in the seasion it looks dreadful. I have a friend who has suggested replacing it with a rose from David Austin. She says the scent on a lot of his roses are great and the plants are not suseptable to disease. Anyone got any thoughts on this.

 

I obtained a David Austen rose this year the scent is great but it did get black spot.

 

Some Roses maybee resitant to blackspot but All are suseptable.

To avoid blackspot and to an extent rust you need to spray fortnightly from bud break. I use a combination of sulphur (from green acres) and a profeshional fungicide (Nimrod T). Top rose and similar will work fine if you spray regularly, this is the key along with removing fallen leaves.

 

Where do you get your Nimrod T Pro Gard, I cant get it anymore.

 

Amenity land Services, www.amenity.co.uk.

not bought any for a while ( 2 litres at a dilution of 25ml to 5 litres goes a long way!)

 

OK thanks I'll have a look.