Cindi ...
I don't know much about gall. I do remember asking Kim about it years ago when I saw gall on a nursery plant that was on a rose that had been on my wish list for a long, long time. His advise was not to buy the plant because the whole plant was infected, not just where the current gall was in evidence. In other words, it would never go away.
The Sacramento Cemetery had problems with gall and had to remove plants and had to sterilize the soil before they could plant new roses back in the same sites, so my guess is that you do not want to keep the rose and certainly do not want to plant it.
I am referring to crown gall. My 'Linda Campbell' has gall, like many rugosas, and doesn't miss a beat. Again, I do not understand the why of it.
