To: "Rose Gardening Mailing List" <listfolks@rosegardens.org>
From: John D. Haines <jdh@rosegardens.org>
Subject: [roses-talk] roses doing poorly this year

I just wanted to ask how people's roses are doing this year.  Mine don't seem
to have anything *wrong* with them -- no bugs, no fungus, or anything 
visible -- but they just aren't *thriving* this year.  Now, it's been
unusually hot in east central Il