i like potted better too more vigorous and taller bush

Most bareroots are grafts and I don't like grafts. So, potted own-roots.

I like both; usually my choice is dictated by availability. In other words, if I'm looking for a particular rose & it's only available as potted, I'll buy the potted version.

I usually go for bareroots because the shipping for a lighter box without dirt is cheaper. Also, bareroots are available to me earlier in the season and I can get them in the ground before everything else in the yard is actively growing & needing maintenance. Locally, if I'm buying a potted & active rose at a nursery, they are all grafted plants, usually on Huey, and not available until frost danger has passed.

One big advantage to getting the potted version is that you'll be able to tell more rapidly if the rose you've purchased really is what's on the tag. I have to admit that sometimes immediate gratification is pretty fun.

Garden center roses in 2-3 gal. pots are former bareroots that have been root-pruned and potted up around 8 weeks before being offered for sale. They are mostly grafted on Dr. Huey.

Potted roses from boutique nurseries are rooted cuttings that are a few months old (in band pots) or around a year old (in 1-gal pots).

So the category "potted roses" encompasses everything from grafted roses 2-1/2 years old to barely rooted cuttings. Large potted roses from the garden center are about the same as bareroots, if you plant the bareroots in March and the potted roses in early May.

Then the category "bareroots" includes everything from top-quality plants available for planting at the optimum time, to freezer-burned sale roses in June and body-bag roses that have spent all their energy growing white sprouts on the Walmart counter.

So maybe the question as phrased needs some work ;)

Traditionally, there has been a larger selection available bare root, and usually at lower prices than potted. Many nurseries and garden centers pot up their left over bare roots. So, it has long been for a lower price and better selection, but at the risk of mislabled plants and those not breaking dormancy, bare root was the way to go.

Potted have the benefit of being able to see the flower to make sure it is correctly identified; they've already broken dormancy, eliminating that issue; and it provides you instant gratification, color in your garden, and/or a more impressive gift plant, but usually at higher prices and often a narrower selection. Not absolutes, but generally the way it has long worked in many instances. Kim

I PREFER the potted ones of course. They're usually well grown out already. Besides, it helps my local nurseries. But bare roots are the more economical for me so I usually go with those when I can. Bands are tough for me because I usually can't grow them big enough to winter well in one short growing season here.

One advantage of bareroots is that they don't need any watering beyond normal rose care. If you saturate the soil when planting in very early spring, it stays moist until the leaves grow out, and by that time there will be plenty of feeder roots in a large volume of soil.. Weekly watering is enough then. OTOH, potted roses need to be watered as though they are still in the pots. The potting soil doesn't absorb much water from the garden soil, in fact water can move out of the root ball into heavy soil surrounding, owing to stronger capillary attraction.

I have mostly good experience with either pottet or bareroot. If I choose bareroot I like to have them shipped (or bought locally) as early as possible. It makes it easier to plant them in early spring when the weather is cooler and wetter. Later on I often have to pot them up and have them in full shade for a while. Here mail order is only bareroot. The advantage of potted roses is you can choose plants with white roots sticking out at the bottom, and later in spring/summer even with buds. These plants are pretty safe. Either pottet or not, I have lost a few roses over the years. One advantage with bareroots you can order in autumn too, I like that.

I do not like potted roses. Bare roots, if planted properly and at the right time, always outgrow the potted versions - at least in my experience. Potted roses have nothing like the real soil in Georgia, anyway. They tend to stick to that rich stuff in the pot and never venture out beyond the good stuff to take hold of all the Georgia red clay. Planting a potted rose in Georgia red clay is not much different than putting the rose in a clay pot. The roots are going to have a lot of trouble to get beyond that - whether it's in the ground or not.

All of my successful plantings with roses that came in dirt - did better when I removed the dirt and pretended that they were bare roots.