I had a row of seedlings mixed with a few named cultivars along my back fence. The temps are finally getting below freezing supposedly tonight. So I went ahead and cut all of the foliage off all those plants down at ground level or below (all except one that showed no rust-the rest did show some signs of rust). So I will wait and see next year if it has any affect on them. Some of them were real rust buckets last year.
I also had a row of named cultivars mostly with a few NOIDs in my rose bed, I cut them all back about a month ago and now they already have new pristine looking green foliage growing back. I will be interested in seeing how they fair next year. The named varieties were new this year and some of them are known to have a rust problem so I thought it worth a try with them.
