Joyfully Blooming in the Garden!

I know I write about certain plants too much, but you can never write too much about roses!  This is the 'Fairy' rose.  It is a polyantha rose and is a cross between Rosa chinensis and Rosa multiflora roses. Hybridized in 1932 by Ann Bentall of England, one of the few female hybridizers of the day.  It blooms from mid-June to right now and later if we don't have a frost in western Pennsylvania.

On the Fine Gardening magazine website, I did find a list of problems it can encounter:  aphids, leafhoppers, spider mites, scale, caterpillars, sawfly larvae, cane borers, Japanese beetles, rose stem girders, rose midges, rose slugs, rose chafers, leaf-cutting bees, black spot, rust, powdery mildew, crown gall, canker, dieback, downy mildew, viruses.  In my experience it is just joyful when it blooms and I have been lucky not to have the problems except for Japanese beetles that Fine Gardening mentioned.  Hope you are enjoying your roses blooming where you may be!  Talk to you later.