A spring rose in summer
This rose plant near where I live surprised me with this flower. I thought it was done at least until the autumn after the rains in may ruined its spring flowers, and the plant itself developed some spots that may be a fungal disease called rust or just weather damage (I'm not sure what butrns from sun after rain re supposed to look like on rose
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Roses are a bugger for rust.
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I took this photo below yesterday, and ouch, it does look like rust! A consequence of those endless rainy days in May and Early June, I'm afraid. Now I'm trying very hard to remember if I've seen rust on roses before, but I can't (my brain stubbornly associates it with the tomatoes in my late grandparents' garden). I thought roses were more prone to powdery mildew.
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The roses here are amazing this year - we're having the sort of grey wet summer they love.
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It seems that even our roses are more adapted to our typical hot dry summers - those of them that bloom in summer at all.
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