Join us as Dr. Mark Windham shows us the way to encourage a healthy spring garden starts with actions in late summer and fall.  As the days get shorter, rose foliage becomes less effective in converting energy to sugars. Leaves become nutrient sinks (use more nutrients than they produce via photosynthesis). Rose roots have become saturated with starch leading to a change in the rose’s physiology which triggers the slow transition toward dormancy. At this time, plants become more susceptible to many diseases that can overwinter on canes or in debris on the soil surface.

In this seminar, we will look at ways to maintain healthy roses as they begin the dormancy transition. Proper planning and direct actions in the fall will pay dividends for healthy roses the following spring. The seminar will look at cultural ways to successfully maintain rose health in both spray and no-spray gardens.