I have grown roses for years and never seen the symptoms that killed this rose before. It was not rose rosette disease, I know what that looks like. It just grew out red which then shaded beautiful tones of orange and gold, like maple fall colors. It stayed that way for about 8 weeks and then shriveled and died. We were not in a drought at the time, my garden is organic, so it was not due to chemicals, and it was also not a time of endless rain, so it wasn't aggravated by water logged soil either. It was just freaky fall colors and then death. I did many google searches to find another example of this and could not. I was just worried it was something that would spread to other roses, but it did not. The three other roses in the immediate vacinity were Scepter'd Isle, The Pilgrim, and Falstaff, all of which remained healthy. The rose was a grafted one from David Austin's American division, the only source of the rose the year I bought it since it was a new intro that year. I was hoping that one person out of the thousands of people tha use this database had seen something similar in the past, but I guess I'll just have to file this one in the X-files as a death due to a mysterious unknown.