Black spot on Iceberg roses

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Hello all. I had inherited two iceberg roses. Had a new baby 6 months ago so hadn’t paid much heed to the garden I'm afraid. Went out for a wander round this evening and both roses are riddled with black spot! What do I do? Is it too late for this year, will they not flower and should I just prune them back? Many thanks for any advice.

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Just buy some black spot spray. It’s fine, get it on Amazon.

They are normally fairly resistant to it. Roseclear should sort it out, and make sure that you clear up any fallen leaves and throw them away.

I normally strip off any diseased leaves, it looks drastic initially as you end up with bare stems, but they quickly throw out new growth. I avoid chemical sprays and just make sure the rose is well fed and mulched.
It's been such a wet spring that fungall disease will have thrived.

Mine suffered last year, I pruned back, picked all the leaves up, yet it’s still back this year.
It still flowered really well last year though and I do have loads of buds starting to form now.

i get it on one of my roses.

quickest cure, remove the leaves with the blackspot soon as you see them, then re-pot the plant, new soil, everything.

Works every time for me!

Ok thank you all for this! When I initially googled it was all very dramatic! I’ll tackle it tomorrow,

I also use roseclear, it does what it says, clears the black spot. I’d not go to all the hassle of picking off leaves and repotting.

Sulphur Rose is what you need. It’ll clear up
black spot but is insect and animal friendly. Spray your roses monthly along with the soil around them. Pick off the bad leaves and clear up any debris on the soil underneath.

The trouble with RoseClear is that it kills the insects that form part of the ecosystem in your garden. Keeping the ecosystem healthy means that over time the things that look after your plants (like the ladybirds that eat the aphids) will do the job for you rather than having to keep shelling out for chemicals.

Pick off and pick up the leaves, water well and then put a big heap of well rotted manure & or compost around your rose - but not right up against the stem or it will rot. Do this every year and you'll have healthy roses and a healthy garden.

@GenerousGardener @Churchview thank you for the detailed explanation re Rose Clear. I’m going to go to the garden centre tomorrow and will look for Sulphur Rose.

Generally it’s a minor spray and at most annually. The eco system is just fine.

My Gertrude Jekyl ( the only one of my DA roses who have had it) which I’m training round an obylisk got black spot. We have a love/ hate relationship and I have only just managed to bring her into line. I basically just pruned off every leaf and diseased looking twig. Mulched with compost, fed and watered. She has now gone insane and not only is black spot free but curling round said book exactly as I wanted her to. Still hate her thorns though! I’d never use anything with chemicals. I had a lot of aphids and just fired them off with water jets. I’ve noticed this year we have loads of ladybirds doing it for me.

She ended up being literally just a couple of thorny twigs after I’d pruned everything off. Can’t believe the difference now.