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RE: What happen?

>So where is everyone?

I've been weaving, making jellies and watching the frog and birds
enjoy my Rose Garden. 

>Did all the roses die?   

No one died here and all is well with mine, except for some annoying
powdery mildew. Mostly on some old ones, (Apothecary, Fantin Latour, 
Climbing Souvenir de la Malmaison, Botzaris, a little on Belle Isis)
that I have sprayed a couple of times with the baking soda stuff..and
that removes it for a month or so.

>What do we do with our roses during this time of the year?  

I've pruned back some leggy ones (my favorite garden chore) and have
enjoying the birds and frogs playing in the garden. Getting ready for
a long winters nap, but we are still having some summer-like weather
here.  Have moved a dozen or some of them, which do okay if I water
them every day for a week.

>How do I dry the rose petals to use
> them as a soap filler? 
> Has anyone one used rose petals in soap?

No, I haven't tried this. Have heard that you can just lay the bar
soaps into piles of rose petals.

> Should we really look for black spot on our leaves?   Is it ok to
let
> the black spot leaves stay on the ground?

This baking soda helps for black spot too, but some like "William
Shakespeare" the red English rose, is just more susceptable in my
garden. I clean up all my dropped rose leaves and feed them to the
sheep.   

Sincerely,       
Carleen Rosenlund of Rainier, Oregon -USDA-8
Sweetbriar - Keeper of Sheep & Old Roses
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