PESTS AND DISEASES
Check your roses regularly to keep pests and diseases under control
and flowers looking their blooming best. Look out for these nasties ...APHIDS
Small sucking insects that distort
soft new growth.
FIX IT Hose of, squash with ingers
or spray with an insecticide.
BLACK SPOT
Leaves covered in black spots, leaves
turning yellow and premature leaf fall.
FIX IT Spray with Eco Organic
Eco-Fungicide or Yates Fungus Gun.POWDERY MILDEW
White powdery growth on leaves,
stems and buds.
FIX IT Spray with Yates Rose Gun
Advanced (this will also kill insects)
or Eco Organic Eco-Fungicide.SCALE
Tiny white or brown lumps attached
to stems.
FIX IT Scrape of with ingernails or
spray with Eco Organic Eco-Oil. his
also attracts beneicial insects. ❖THRIPS
Tiny insects, just visible to the eye,
that suck the sap of lowers and buds
causing browning of the petals.
FIX IT Spray regularly with an
insecticide.TWO-SPOTTED MITES
Sap-sucking mites, almost invisible
to the eye, that cause grey and
mottled leaves.
FIX IT Spray with an insecticide
like Yates Rose Gun Advanced.