@reh0622, Rosemary ...
Lyn, are you talking about "Rose Gardener's Disease?" It sounds something to be avoided, even if it's not considered fatal.
Yes. It is also called "Rose Thorn Disease". No, it is not fatal, but you could lose your hand.
https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/dis...
There are a lot of roses that are not heavily armed with thorns. In the NGA database there are 8 pages of roses that came up when I did a search for that characteristic. In the HMF database, the same search yielded 137 pages.
No, not all of them are in commerce.
@fisherwoman ... I have a lot of roses in this garden that are armed with thorns, including two moss roses. I can tell you from personal experience that the thorns did not deter either the deer-chomp prune nor the wood rat-prune even a little bit. The roses with lots of thorns got attacked as readily as the roses that had few or no thorns.
Thank you for your comments. After participating in this thread, I think I will remember to wear my gloves ...
