A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 18 – Christina King on Rose Rosette Disease
Summary: <p style="font-weight: 400;">I don’t grow a lot of roses, just a few favorites, but birds plant the occasional multiflora rose seed here and there around the garden. One of the resulting seedlings looked really strange when I noticed while weeding in an out-of-the-way spot the other day. It was all disfigured, and red, and—uh-oh—rose rosette disease comes to my corner of Nowheresville.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">I hear from a lot of you who have encountered rose rosette disease not on some weed as I did, but on your prized rose bushes. I invited research scientist Christina King of Star Roses and Plants—known for more than a century for many favorite garden plants, including the most popular roses today, the Knockout series—to explain what this disease is all about, and what promise lies ahead for fighting it. <img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4416" src="https://i1.wp.com/robinhoodradioondemand.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/RRD_thorns_1.jpg?resize=225%2C300&ssl=1" alt="" width="225" height="300"> <img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4417" src="https://i0.wp.com/robinhoodradioondemand.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Christina_King_Headshot3-1-1.jpg?resize=218%2C300&ssl=1" alt="" width="218" height="300"></p>
