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Skiekitty said:Zu - Was wondering if anyone here was in the fire dangerzone. We've got horrific smoke problems here. I'm looking out my window here at work & the sky is that slightly orangish tinge from the smoke.. and it's from the fires in California this time. We've had some hellacious months of smoke this year.. and none of it is from fires here in Colorado! Odd! But the drought.. that's horrible. We're not in as dire straits as California/Washington are, but pretty gosh-darned close to it.

Toni ... I've been living in smoke all summer. We had five fire complexes in Trinity County started by lightening. Thank God the big ones were on the other side of the mountain or down river, but the smoke seemed to settle in Weaverville ...

Skiekitty said:roses refusing to bloom due to drought & starvation (haven't fed since May)..

Luckily enough most of my roses survived without me babying them. I lost a few.. some didn't even break dormancy from winter. I didn't even get all the roses in the back yard pruned this spring.. bleh. But there's gonna be next year & I am not going to let things go to someplace in a handbasket!

Most roses and a lot of other plants won't bloom much when there is a lot of smoke because of the lower light levels. My doc lost his whole grape crop because of the smoke.

It's a good thing that you weren't able to prune your roses during a drought period. That encourages new growth and adds additional stress to an already water stressed plant.

It's lousy that you had health problems this year, but other than your weed problem, I think the roses that survived will probably be OK. I hope you are feeling better.