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Could have sworn I added another post before I went to the grocery store, but now it is nowhere to be seen!
Anyway, to answer Patty's question, I've had Braveheart for maybe 7-8 years, and if something happened to it, I would immediately replace it with another one. That is how much I adore that shrub.
Kate
Yay! This is what I love about this forum - it connects people with rose questions with LOCAL folks with answers - in this case very local! Do take advantage of this, allencia - local knowledge about roses is the best you can get. Folks living in other places may try to give you advice, but they really have no idea how a specific rose may act in your place.
Jackie
What you describe as brown and crinkly new growth could be normal new growth. Often the unfolding leaves are brownish, yellowish, or reddish.
If you have a yellowing cane that is not supporting vigorous new growth, ut may need to be taken out--but I would wait a couple of weeks if you are not very familiar with how roses grow.
Here is some information on leaf-cutter bees:
http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05576.html
If something is tunneling into a cane further down, I suspect it is not a leaf cutter bee, but something else.
If you don't have a camera, do you by chance have a flat-bed scanner? Or access to one? Because you can put a leaf or leaves in one and scan it for a good quality image.
Failing that, I suggest that you take leaves to a good local nursery, and ask them about them. (Not a Home Depot or Lowes. A real nursery.) Failing THAT, see if there is a local rose society.
Do you seal your pruning cuts. If not look for a round hole any where the rose was pruned. If you find a hole, something put there larvae in there. Even leaf cutter bees will lay larvae in cut stems.They eat their way down where they over winter. When you see a hole in spring before you prune for the season. Cut till you see no hole. Then cut the cane in half just above that and you can see the tiny black developing bee larvae. Of course there are many types of bore insects that can affect roses.
Should that cane start to wilt the sooner you cut the better as if something is in their it will continue to munch it's way down. If only the flower or bud is wilting than something laid eggs in it. Take them off and discard in garbage. You would not want the eggs to develop.
Usually he type of borer that causes wilting tips is not the type that drills nursery chambers in cut cane ends. The latter is the Small Carpenter Bee. I tolerate these without any major problems. One borer that drills way down the cane after starting near the tip is the Raspberry Stem Sawfly, but I don't notice them before July.
See the excellent Baldo Villegas page for his discussion of borers.
A common problem with rugosa roses in the North is Rose Stem Girdler. They kill whole canes by tunneling under the bark in a swollen area. Look for these canes in mid to late summer, cut below the swollen area, and bag or burn it. Otherwise the larvae survive winter and become adults that lay more eggs the following season.
Yes, I think you have to be a member on HMF to us the private messaging. I would encourage you to join because it's well worth it.
Dave really needs to get his roses out there. I looked at all his plants listed at HMF and they were all beautiful! Lots of them are stripes and have great form!
Oh my goodness!!! How can that rose NOT be out in commerce!!! It's exquisite!!!
I also decided (just now) to go look at his other roses (never thought about it until I read above). They're GORGEOUS!!!!!!! I can't believe he's not selling his roses. If those roses can't get into commerce, then nothing can.
Carol
Yes I believe this is Henry Kelsey. If you check out Help Me Find roses then click on the search/lookup tab. Then type in the name of your rose and it will come up. At the top of this page there is a photo tab it will bring up many photos of Henry Kelsey. There you will see many of the different looks that the flower can show. It can show serveral shapes depending on the wearther. Hope this is helpful.