You can try growing a mini rose anywhere it suites your fancy. They grow roses in Greenhouses, so they can be grown "indoors" in a manner of speaking if given the proper lighting, ventillation, air circulation, humidity, temperature, nutrients, pest and disease control. What are the chances of a mini rose growing well in the average home environment? Slim to none. Besides do you really want to be spraying fungicides or insecticides inside your home if the occasion arises? Best to grow your roses outdoors on the other side of the sunroom window.

I do spray for spider mites on my indoor minis but Avid can be quite expensive. A good control is not misting, which doesn't do a thing, but wrapping a paper towel around the base of the plant to keep the dirt in, inverting the plant in the kitchen sink and spraying the underside of the leaves with a good cold spray from that hose spray I've never found any other use for. If you do that twice a week, spider mite will be a thing of the past. I use Avid because I have big roses inside and turning them upside down is nothing I could manage. It's very common for the leaves to turn yellow and drop when you first get a potted mini. They've been forced in a greenhouse and the change to dry air and lower light levels is enough to shock them. They should leaf out again and do fine thereafter. They sure aren't the easiest house plants in the world but I've got ten of them inside, several blooming right now and they're doing fine.

Thanks, Diane, for the watering advice. I couldn't understand the finger bit, either, and was surprised when she said that someone at our local garden center told her that. This lady is very "exact and precise", and doesn't do well unless things are cut and dry. I think that I will take the plant back to her after I've done all I can, then monitor them for a couple of weeks, to see how fast the pots dries out. Then perhaps I can better tell her how much and how often she needs to water them. Thanks, Holly

I've been growing a potted Olympiad that I impulse bought in February under a full spectrum clip on light I found at Amazon for 25 bucks. (2 bendy things with bulbs attached to a spring clip) I take it out of the garage on warm days, but it's healthy. I thought I was going to kill it for sure. I've cut 3 blooms from it, and it's cranking out more.