Sick rose

here are lots of really beautiful roses in this bed and I am very keen indeed to avoid them all going under - I would rather sacrifice one than lose the lot!

Do keep us posted on its recovery. Hopefully with picture of beautiful roses!

I hope not Luckygirl - another idea, could be used by cats etc as a toilet?
We have a few spots like that in our garden.

I hope it is not a problem in the soil because this is my rose bed/scented garden!!!!

I agree with Coolgran - there could be a problem with the roots, maybe an infestation in the soil surrounding them.
We've had that with one of our flowering sage plants, which are normally very hardy here.
Maybe too late, but if all else fails, try transplanting.

I have done the deed! - chopped off all the diseased shoots and leaves, leaving just two new-looking ones; fed and sprayed with RoseClear. Put the choppings for burning, sterilized secateurs - so let's hope the others do not succumb. I have also sent off for some potassium bicarbonate to spray on them all. So.....fingers crossed!

*rose, of course. I meant to add that if you do it now then there's plenty of time for the plant to put on new growth.

You have nothing to lose by cutting it back, rises are quite tough. Water well and feed it with specific rose food.
When we inherited our current garden there was an old straggling rose, diseased and without flowers. We cut it down to about 30 cms, this year it's been beautiful and on its second flush of flowers.

Mine has no healthy growth at all now and this is after spraying - it seems to have spread to the whole plant since I sprayed it. I am tempted to cut my losses and cut it right back in the hope that this will stop it spreading to all the others, and that it might, just might re-emerge at some point. Would this be a crazy thing to do?

I'd give it a prune, mine had rust at the beginning of June. I sprayed it, left it for a week or so to absorb the chemical and then cut off the affected parts, as they don't recover.
The new growth was unaffected and it's healthy flowering now.

My climbing rose has been like this for two years running in spite of spraying with Fungus Fighter Plus. I was hopeful this year that it would buck the trend but no, so next year, it is on its way, I'm afraid. Mine is suffering from rose rust, which, as you probably know starts out as rusty coloured spots on the leaves and ends up with the whole of the leaves going yellow and falling off. I try to take off affected leaves before the whole plant succumbs, but last year I almost denuded the whole bush so gave up in the end. I hope you find a solution, Lucky.

One week might be a bit optimistic to expect improvement.

I don't know an awful lot about roses but would be taking off all those yellow leaves and any that are on the ground. Maybe cut it right down and see what it does next year.

Wonder what is going on an the root ball. If it has stopped flowering - are there buds that aren't opening, or are there no buds at all.

Is it thriving in any way..... how long have you had it, is this it's first season. Perhaps take a sample of it to the garden centre where you bought it and ask questions.