Raymondo: What are all those leaves around the plants? Is that a version of mulch? Any mulch around producing strawberry plants is unhelpful, both because it promotes slug and insect activity, but also because it generates a lot of fungal organisms as it breaks down. These are deadly for strawberry plants. Although it may be too late for these plants to recover, I would clear those leaves out of there pronto, right down to the bare soil. Strawberries are subject to dozens of different fungal infections, and who knows which one you have. Maybe more than one out of that fungus factory. The best way to grow strawberries is on black plastic, planting right through the plastic laid down on a fertile area. Weed problems are practically eliminated, and if you want to start a few runners to replace the older mother plants, you simply cut a slit and place the new leaf rosette into it. Black plastic also discourages insect and slug activity, since they do not like the heat generated under the plastic, but the strawberry roots do. I don't know for sure that black plastic is "organic", but let's say it is. Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA

It took six years for Playboy to show RMV zigzags here; mine was grafted and did well for four years. Then I went into denial, then RMV showed. As a general rule, the only floribunda that seems to be a universal hit in the southeast (without the high care normally given to 'show' roses) is Eutin. There are several roses called Eutin in the southeast; all have become passalong plants and are doing it on their own roots. You won't see old Floribundas in my part of the world; they don't last all that well. They don't choose to go own root. I have a Dickie that was dug from an exhibitors garden where it had become a huge plant on a graft, but the graft was starting to rot as we dug it up. When dug, it split up into multiple plants, the offspring haven't rebounded to the size of their parent. (It's been six years, aka long enough.) I understand one Dickie that I shared with someone in CA has grown vigorously. Different soils for different roses. In my soils, I do find Orleans Rose kin surviving well on their own roots; something in them loves acidic red clay; but there aren't any FLs that seem to be close to Orleans et al and that may be the hitch.

caeebe -- I don't know if you want to take my advice, since I apparently have been waiting and WAITING on mine to bloom already! LOL But, in the past, what I have done is... ...nothing. Absolutely nothing. Until about the end of July or early August. And, then, all I did was to shape them up a little (with shears or clippers or whatever you have available). Seemed to encourage more blooms, later into the fall, and kept them a little neater. They tend (usually) to just spread out all over.

The plant looks okay to me, but is there a possibility that you're giving it too much water? It's in a pretty big pot for its size. Also, have you given it any fertiliser? I grow my NG indoors, but in a very sunny window and it does great. My guess would be that the fact the plant looks weak was something that was going to happen anyway, regardless of sun.