This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.
Miniature Rose
D0rdogne_Damsel
Posts: 4,184
in Plants
Hello this is from a friend looking for advice, any ideas? Thanks.
"Hello, I'm after some advice as you know about roses (bizarrely that auto corrected to tossers!). Someone bought me a miniature patio rose for my birthday, it's still flowering so presumably it's been in a greenhouse. Do you think it would be safe to put it in a patio tub in the garden at this time of year? It's only in a little plastic pot at the moment. I was a bit worried it might have a bit of a shock about the colder weather."
- “Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
0
Posts
Funnily enough those were my first thoughts but I wanted to check before I let my friend know, shame for a birthday present to be so short lived. And it was a 'special' birthday too.
Thanks for the quick response too.
It may depend on the variety.
Too many years ago I was given a Ballerina miniature rose. I planted it outside after a few weeks and it lived happily in the garden for many years
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
One year I was given a pot containing two minature roses for mothers day. I have no idea what the variety was. I put them in the garden once they had finished flowering and they lasted in the garden for about 3 years until I tried to move them. That being said I did put them in during the summer so they had a while to settle in before the winter.
Thanks all.
I have a ballerina, little thing does marvellously considering the neglect it has suffered. Hope it doesn't sulk now I am giving it TLC.
I think it depends on whether we're talking about those tiny little roses one can buy in pots/baskets which are so small they can sit on a windowsill, or whether we're talking about a patio rose - which are varieties of rose with compact growth which are sold with the advice that they do well in containers on patios etc. e.g. http://www.primrose.co.uk/-p-66005.html?adtype=pla&kwd=&gclid=CPPXv6vNv8ECFbHHtAod3UoABw
They're really quite different.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My tiny roses lasted about a year in a pot outside, but I was given them in the spring. My patio rose lasted about 4 years, don't know why it died.
Hi all, my friend sends her thanks for all the advice re. miniature rose last year and has posted a picture of her progress to date. Going outside for the summer now with fingers crossed. (on the left).
Hello DD - I had a pot of mini-roses from Lidl last year and planted them (the pot seemed to contain 3 cuttings) in a patio tub in my Languedoc garden. They went through the winter unprotected and are growing really strongly now. I think roses are pretty tough!