Taking cuttings from poorly rose bushes

[BirthdayRainbow]

I have about eight roses bushes, all different, and nearly all of them have black spots on the leaves and some with orange rust like stuff on the stems, from where I was not able to sort it on one and it has spread. Another shrub on the opposite side of the garden also had the orange stuff and that has been removed.

I am selling my house and I was thinking I can't take cuttings as then I'm just taking whatever this is to my new house.

How can I sort this for the new people and is there anyway that I can take cuttings without causing myself a problem at my new house?

I tried the spray black spot stuff, one can only use it twice a year, it didn't seem to do a lot and I am trying to avoid chemicals anyway.

Please can anyone help? Thank you.

If your roses have black spot they just have it. If you plants roses at your new house, they will probably get black spot too, even if you didn't bring it with you!

Some roses are a bit more resistant to it than others, happy roses that are fed and pruned and watered will be better than those that aren't.

You can minimize it by religiously removing all the leaves when they shed over winter and then spraying.

I have an old rose that I can't manage to dig up which is very susceptible to black spot. It then spreads it around all my newer roses near it, none of which look as bad as it does. The further away they are, the less black spot they have.

In your situation I'd be inclined to just buy new roses at your new house and pick disease resistant ones.

Thank you @AnnaMagnani . I'm pretty sentimental about these roses but I need to make things easier for myself as well. It seems like they would never stop having it. I'm hoping I will be moved before Winter but I'll definitely do that with the leaves etc if I am still here. And I will research what will be good for my garden in terms of resistence and sun position. Thank you.

Some varieties of rose are much more prone to blackspot than others. The orange stuff is rust.

@BirthdayRainbow If you have any Roseclear fungicide, I'd use that for the rust, and it will help with blackspot too. The spray bottle I have says you can use it every 7-10 days.

I will look for some thank you @invisiblecat as the stuff I have is only twice a year usage. Mind boggled that a living thing can go rusty!

Not the same rust! It’s a fungal infection that is called rust because it’s the same colour as the iron oxide (rust) created when iron reacts with oxygen in the presence of water.

Ah! @MereDintofPandiculation Oops. Makes sense as my soil is clay in parts. Orange coloured too.

It's a rust-coloured fungus, not actual rust.

I've got some stuff today but can't use it yet as too sunny so I'll start tonight. Thanks all.