It sounds like scale ... Eco oil on a toothbrush works well but you have an intrinsic issue - the soil is compacted so you must get a garden fork and dig holes around the base of the rose to aerate the soil ... you'll be surprised how well this works! Do let me know how the Just Joey recovers after this simple treatment.

Put the cow manure on now and then fertilize with a complete organic fertilizer that includes trace elements. Manure is as nutrient-rich as the soil where the animals grazed. It's not always COMPLETE or ENRICHED with minerals and trace elements. Any manure is still very valuable as an additive to condition the soil, and feed worms and microbes … hope there aren’t any pasture ‘weeds’ in the manure

It’s run out of puff in a pot. If you wish to retain it in a pot, then upend the pot, trim the roots, the top just as if it was a bare-rooted rose all over again. Use fresh potting media and back in the same pot unless you cracked it to get the old rose out. It’s sure to be lovely again!

Because of the incredible amount of rain still falling along the east coast, I believe it’s imperative that you maintain both liquid and pellet fertilizer as soon as practicable because yes, indeed, lots of valuable nutrients will have washed through the soil / potting media and your plants will appreciate regular fertilizer to recover. Remember, Eco-seaweed solution is not fertiliser but rather a tonic to relieve stress and nurture plants!

Around Australia, there's hardy a rose bush that needs water yet!  However, when you water, are you OVERHEAD watering?  That will cause grief for the flowers - it's inevitable when we get rain but you can avoid it by NOT overhead watering!

You'll see flowers with those ugly outer markings after very hot / windy weather when thrip are carried on the wind ... thrips are miniscule insects which bury deep into the rose petals - they make a particular mess of pale coloured blooms just like in the picture!

In cases where the flowers look as yours do, I generally recommend cutting them off and wait for the next round of flowers in 40-45 days!

Hello Pat .... yes, I suppose you could dis-bud or de-bud the central flower but I rather leave them all so that I can always see a perfect bloom.  Once that bloom is finished, remove it and wait for the others to open.

Although CHARLES DE GAULLE is a HYBRID TEA rose,it has the flowering characteristics of a FLORIBUNDA (cluster flowering) rose with large heads of perfectly-formed, large HT shaped blooms.

It’s no wonder rose gardeners/enthusiasts are so frequently confused about the classification of roses and why we here at Rose Sales Online prefer to call them BUSH ROSES or MODERN SHRUB ROSES as this prevents confusion!