Those in my garden were planted in direct all day sun. At the time they were planted they were still rather small, smaller than any I sent you. Plant in the garden but don't bother the roots. Do as the following instructions direct and you'll have no problems with transplanting them now. Part time temporary shade during the hottest part of the day won't hurt either. Something like a lawn chair set between the rose and the sun. Planting a potted rose When planting a potted rose bush, care must be taken so soil doesn't fall from the roots or tiny feeder roots will be lost causing the plant to be stressed. You can overcome this problem by doing the following. First prepare the planting hole. Dig it twice as wide and deep as the pot. In the bottom portion of the hole you can mix horse manure or an organic fertilizer with the soil, but no chemical fertilizers. With a sharp razor knife cut the bottom from the pot. Then cut down the two opposite sides of the pot about two inches. Using masking tape secure the two cuts then continue cutting the sides to a point halfway down. Secure these the same as the top cuts were secured. Continue cutting the sides all the way to the bottom. You’ll have a pot in three pieces, two sides and bottom, held together by tape. Holding the bottom, place the pot into the hole. If the bush is a grafted plant, position it so the bud union (swollen knob/graft point from where the canes grow) will be 4-6 inches below the soil surface in cold winter growing zones. If the bush is on its own roots, position it so it’s no more than an inch deeper than in the pot. Slide the bottom from the pot. Pull soil into the hole until it come to the lower tape. Cut the tape on both sides of the pot and continue filling the hole to just under the top tape. Cut the top tape and fill the hole so just the tops of the two pot sides are above the soil. Pull them straight up and complete filling the hole. Do not tamp the soil. Settle it with a hose set to just a trickle so all the water stays on the soil around the bush. There should be a depression around the bush. Add more soil until most of the depression is filled. Until the bush is growing well, water daily soaking the area well. Planted this way, the bush will not know it’s been transplanted and should show no signs of stress. When watering, make sure you apply enough so it gets to the roots. A light sprinkling only wets the surface. This can cause the feeder roots to grow towards the surface. In dry spells the bush will wilt. Watering deep eliminates this problem and causes the roots to grow deep enabling them to better withstand periods of no or little rainfall. A five gallon bucket with a 16D nail hole in the bottom side and filled with water, then placed next to the bush will supply the needed water with no runoff. All the water will soak into the soil at the base of the bush. In sandy soil do this daily until the bush is growing well. In clay soil, do this when the leaves show signs of slight water distress but at least every other day until it’s growing well. If your rose has weak canes and wants to lay over, plant it 3-5 inches deeper than it was in the pot. The soil will support the canes. As the bush matures and the roots get established, stronger, thicker canes will grow and will support themselves. Many climbers and some ground cover roses have naturally lax canes.

As Jim says, look to economic explanations. The mass market producers in the US until quite recently were interested only in producing and promoting modern bush roses and climbers. Very small companies, motivated by love as much as anything, took up the role of propagating old roses, shrubs, and little known varieties. It takes less room and less skilled labor to produce roses from cuttings. If it's an old wives' tale that grafted roses are short-lived, it's also false that roses generally do better grafted. Modern bush roses, perhaps so, and some other varieties, but many roses grow strongly on their own roots.

Yep, start shopping for larger pots. You can use a liquid fertilizer-- fish emulsion or seaweed initially. Osmocote is a good idea as well; many nurseries use a time release in their potted roses to keep them growing and blooming well. I'd be in no hurry to cut back such sparse, spindly plants. They need all the foliage they can produce. Once they are happy they should send up new shoots from the base. Then next year you MAY want to tidy them up and remove damaged or spindly growth.

VAPORVAC, you gave me a great idea. An aerator of a fish tank !! My problem is maybe it's a lot of tea I have to prepare. Are several containers ... what would require me to buy several fish tank aerators? Vaporvac, I do not care if you call me Joy because the word I like. But actually my name is Maria. The Garden of Joy is the name of my garden and is also the name I use on Facebook. When you say the conversation warms up, do you mean that you argue passionately? If so, I do not care. I am Spanish and if something characterizes us to the Spaniards is that we are very, very, passionate people. We are vehement and we live things very intensely. So I will heed your advice and I will also visit the ancient roses forum. Although I do not know if they will make the effort you make in understanding me. It must be difficult to understand my English. It is not true? Jajjajaja Surely say barbarities. I am sorry. SAMUEL, many thanks for your kind words. The vinegar is put in small quantity. I have enough roses in the range of violets, purples, magenta .... I have verified that if I acidify a little (just a little) the ground, the colors of those same roses produce roses in tones that pull more blue than red. Let's say the colors are a bit colder, more violet than purple. I do not know if I can explain. I tell you, the vinegar is to acidify the soil a bit. Fishmeal is fish which is dried, dehydrated and then ground, pulverized. It has many nutrients. But it smells very bad, very bad, very bad !! What beautiful lupines !! It strikes me that he cultivates the strawberries next to the vivacious ones. In my case would be impossible because the strawberries become very large forests, I think they invade the vivacious. I envy their lupins because I tried twice to grow them and they came to flourish but they always became ill and ended up dying. And I gave up !! SAMUEL I think my tea would be of better quality if I managed to aerate it. This would help increase the amount of microorganisms present in the tea that I bring to my roses. In forest areas near my garden there are also deer, but these animals never approach the gardens. I live in an urbanization. I do not know how to say it in English A space of land with individual houses and that has streets with asphalt. Very quiet area without much vehicle but urbanized enough that the deer do not approach. There is also some difference in how we understand the Spanish gardens. I explain. Here for most gardeners, it would be unthinkable not to hedge your property. It is not frequent to see open gardens. Almost all the gardens have a wall, hedge, fence ... that makes limit and prevents the penetration of animals.