Growing roses can be an ass job if you dont know how to deal with pests that prey on this plant.
While kampung roses are generally hardier than the delicate Cameron Highland type, the main challenge is in dealing with the regular mealy bugs to mini mites to fungus to crown rots, if you don't know how to deal with them effectively, you are going to end with a dead stump eventually.
Cunning nursery owners are not going to share freely the secrets of their trade so unless you come one or two who are sincere enough to reveal what needs to be done. Ive had arse luck with my roses in the last few months, first one idiotic municipal worker loves to spray herbicide into our compound when he should be spraying at weeds across the road. He killed my mixed colour rose plant during one of his spraying spree and my bachelor's button has survived nearly three times the ordeal.
And then there is my idiotic neighbour who dont keep their yard weeded regularly instead chooses the short cut by spraying the whole of their yard and our sides with very strong weed killer, thus killing our plants by the fence.
Then fungus spots and crown rot attacked my tartan rose. My yellow rose is barely surviving despite numerous treatments of homemade sprays, fungicides and pesticides. This is the latest addition
