I might suggest getting a very large pot (as big as you can) and trying a low growing rose like the single blossom Cutie Pie (Kordes) - very easy to manage, very happy in pots, thornless, perpetually flowering, beloved by bees. You might try multiple of the rose in one pot. To make it even easier to manage, add a water drip system.
The bigger the pot (ideally 50 or 60cm square) and the better your potting mix (not just MPC) the easier it is to keep it well fed and regularly watered, which all potted roses need.
I would suggest looking at the ‘floribunda’ group of roses, which are generally more floriferous and easy-care. They tend to be more forgiving of intermittent care, clumsy pruning etc., than many, so make good beginner’s roses.
My healthiest, most floriferous - near continuous blooming - and fuss-free rose which needs less water and feeding than them all (I currently have 65!) is this shrubby floribunda rose, called ‘Sweet Pretty’ in the UK. It has large single flowers that pollinators love, if that is important to you. It’s more white/blush pink though, so may not be the colour you are after.
This is Sweet Pretty in my garden, it’s very easy to prune to shape at any time of the year if it gets too big. This is only the start, I have better photos of it totally smothered from head to toe in blooms and can look them out if it’s of interest..
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I have Olivia Rose Austin in a pot. Healthy foliage, early flowering, nice scent too. Very happy in full sun.
For potting mix, I use John Innes No. 3, with several large handfuls of manure compost and also some horticultural grit. I have an inner plastic pot within a decorative pot, and the decorative pot is on pot feet to drain well.
I give it a weekly seaweed feed diluted according to instructions (Envii Seafeed Xtra) in early May when growth starts in earnest. Tomorite is also good to boost flowering.
My friend grows all her roses in pots. They are all Davis Austen small shrub roses and they are all doing very well despite her consistent neglect of them😬. For example, last summer (remember the heat and the drought....) none of them were watered from April to October. 😱 How they survived I have no idea.
I took them in hand a bit this winter and pruned them, repotted them at the correct depth in a 50:50 mix of John Innes No3 and MPC, gave them rose feed in April and have nagged her about watering. She is astonished at how well they have grown and how healthy they are now.
One of her pink ones is Strawberry Hill which is doing very well. Pretty form, upright blooms, nice light scent.
The advantage of the DA modern shrub roses is that (with regular dead heading) most of them will flower from now until the frosts. Pick one with a good scent, a flower form that you like (I find very 'cabbagey' ones are often too droopy and the blooms too easily spoiled by rain), give it basic TLC and you'll be fine.
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That’s so true @Topbird I always say that you get out what you put in and that’s never more pertinent than with potted roses. It’s amazing what a bit of care and decent watering does for a rose. Indeed many plants.
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I have had joie de vivre in a large pot for years and it always does me well.
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Seems to tick a lot if your boxes.
I would suggest looking at the ‘floribunda’ group of roses, which are generally more floriferous and easy-care. They tend to be more forgiving of intermittent care, clumsy pruning etc., than many, so make good beginner’s roses.
My healthiest, most floriferous - near continuous blooming - and fuss-free rose which needs less water and feeding than them all (I currently have 65!) is this shrubby floribunda rose, called ‘Sweet Pretty’ in the UK. It has large single flowers that pollinators love, if that is important to you. It’s more white/blush pink though, so may not be the colour you are after.
https://www.garden-roses.co.uk/shop/sweet-pretty-shrub-M78
This is Sweet Pretty in my garden, it’s very easy to prune to shape at any time of the year if it gets too big. This is only the start, I have better photos of it totally smothered from head to toe in blooms and can look them out if it’s of interest..
I give it a weekly seaweed feed diluted according to instructions (Envii Seafeed Xtra) in early May when growth starts in earnest. Tomorite is also good to boost flowering.
I took them in hand a bit this winter and pruned them, repotted them at the correct depth in a 50:50 mix of John Innes No3 and MPC, gave them rose feed in April and have nagged her about watering. She is astonished at how well they have grown and how healthy they are now.
One of her pink ones is Strawberry Hill which is doing very well. Pretty form, upright blooms, nice light scent.
The advantage of the DA modern shrub roses is that (with regular dead heading) most of them will flower from now until the frosts. Pick one with a good scent, a flower form that you like (I find very 'cabbagey' ones are often too droopy and the blooms too easily spoiled by rain), give it basic TLC and you'll be fine.