On 1/11/2008 3:06 PM, Charles wrote:
and my blooming roses are blooming. I hate to cut them now.

Do it anyway. While pruning, make a bouquet of roses for your wife or
for some lonely senior citizen on your block.

See my http://www.rossde.com/garden/garden_rosepruning.html.

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David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean
Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean
influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19)
Gardening pages at http://www.rossde.com/garden/