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RE: Hard-pruning the roses again
Hmm, roses love acidic soil and that may be part of the problem. I'd remove the weeds by hand and look at improving the soil and general growing conditions to see if they cure themselves. What does the disease look like?
The leaves are half yellowed and curled. The buds look like their rotten until it blooms.
I had looked it up, but don't remember right now what it was called.
I figured that part out when they did better overall. I keep weeding, I can't seem to get the milkweed to stop. It is a freaking hydra. If you pull one part 3 or 4 more sprouts pop up. Then I read if you just break the stock and let them die that way it should resolve the issue. That didn't work. Part of me doesn't want to get rid of them due to the butterflies, but I have yet seen bee nor butterfly attracted to these.
Often, it's not enough to just break the stock, dig around in the soil until you have found and removed it all.
I throw all my used tea leaves and coffee grinds at the base of the rose bushes but a rose fertiliser and epsom salts may help too. Do they have good drainage and are they getting enough sunlight?
Wonderful amount of sunlight, they are on the eastern side of the house and the sun doesn't go behind the house until about 2pm. I think that is part of the reason they are still doing as well as they are. I am unsure about drainage since they were here when we bought the house. I have not seen any sitting water even after a very heavy rain, so I am inclined to think there is. I will have to start saving my tea and coffee grounds.
Then I guess I'll have to go rooting. I will definitely wait until it's not 100+ outside :( Thank you so much for the advice @nikv