Miniature Rose
D0rdogne_Damsel
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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."
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I have never had much luck with miniature roses that are bought as presents and put out into the garden. They seem to be only fit for an indoor life. There they then always romp away, growing taller and taller, but never flowering with the vigour that they originally had. A typical case of unnatural, selective breeding.
If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
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.
Maybe others will differ in their thoughts. Maybe I'm just a great lummox when It comes to dainty things
If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
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.