Hi all, just found this old thread and wanted to post some info for new visitors. Over the last 12 years I have bought 5 of those tiny, indoors windowsill roses, some from Asda and some from Tesco, all are still alive and doing well. I have bought all of them in late autumn or early winter, when it's a better chance they have not been drying out during transport or storage in the shop - and as soon as I get them home I chuck them out in the garden. They are not really suitable for indoor use for more than a couple of days at the most if you have central heating on, which I definitely have at that time of year. I pot them up in a twice as big pot straight away, treat them once with the same antifungal as my other roses and that's it - just water them with the rest of the plants outside. The next spring and summer I fertilise and treat them with antifungal at the same interval as the other roses - they are prone to much more disease than most roses so really need treatment, and next year after that, in February, they get potted up into a container and a prune just like all the other roses. Some of the tiny tiny ones are in the ground and are not really tiny any more, up to 70-90cm tall, but some of those in the containers keep to about 50cm when pruned every year. The one in the photo was bought in 2014 in Asda for £1, photo taken last summer. Only slight niggle is that none of these have any labels, would have liked to have full botanical names - but I suppose you can't get everything for a pound :-) Helene
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Hi all, just found this old thread and wanted to post some info for new visitors. Over the last 12 years I have bought 5 of those tiny, indoors windowsill roses, some from Asda and some from Tesco, all are still alive and doing well. I have bought all of them in late autumn or early winter, when it's a better chance they have not been drying out during transport or storage in the shop - and as soon as I get them home I chuck them out in the garden. They are not really suitable for indoor use for more than a couple of days at the most if you have central heating on, which I definitely have at that time of year. I pot them up in a twice as big pot straight away, treat them once with the same antifungal as my other roses and that's it - just water them with the rest of the plants outside. The next spring and summer I fertilise and treat them with antifungal at the same interval as the other roses - they are prone to much more disease than most roses so really need treatment, and next year after that, in February, they get potted up into a container and a prune just like all the other roses. Some of the tiny tiny ones are in the ground and are not really tiny any more, up to 70-90cm tall, but some of those in the containers keep to about 50cm when pruned every year. The one in the photo was bought in 2014 in Asda for £1, photo taken last summer. Only slight niggle is that none of these have any labels, would have liked to have full botanical names - but I suppose you can't get everything for a pound :-)
Helene
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