rbains5, They did VERY well!! I also think using great potting soil helped me out. Very airy potting soil and the addition of air-pruning via grow bags had fantastic results. I used Happy Frog soil. It has mychorrizal fungi in the soil and helps roots to develop. I highly recommend putting them on top of STURDY pot caddies or rollers (whatever they are called). I had them sitting on concrete and not only did mold to grow pretty quickly on the bags, but water seems to just sit around the bottom of the bags. You need sturdy ones since a 20gal grow bag plus a rose is gonna be HEAVY. That being said, I don’t think it’s possible to completely prevent mold from growing on your bags. You have to consider replacing them about once a year if you don’t like the mold. I personally don’t know how it affects the plants (if it affects them at all). If you don’t care about mold and just don’t want to see it, maybe consider black grow bags? Grow bags are not going to last as long as actual planters, though. Be careful if your rose is not winter hardy, their roots will be exposed to temperature changes more than a rose in the ground or in a thick planter. My DAs are hardy to zone 5 and they did fine in grow bags over the winter in zone 7a. Don’t know if that would have been the same had I actually been in zone 5. Sorry for bombarding you with all of these things! I do think growing in grow bags- especially if it is a young rose, is fantastic!

munstead does well here but never has a profusion of blooms (only had mine for 2 years and a had 3 or 4 blooms at a time). Darcey Bussell on the other makes more blooms than you can count but it does get more BS than MW. The only red rose I have that blooms A LOT and is BS free is Bordeaux cityscape. Dark desire is also BS free but it is huge and slower repeat. darcey blooms a lot and recovers well after defoliating with proper care but it can't match Olivia's health. MW is healthier than Darcey but if what you want is blooming power similar to Olivia this isn't it. Here is Darcey B edit: I should have specfied I also do not grow many reds so I am hopping others have more options for you or mybe bette experience with munstead wood. The blooms are amazing and it has a wonderful scent, maybe in a pot with lots of good fertilizer it would do better

Oh my goodness, @seasiderooftop! She looks great on the beach! When I first caught a glimpse of her against the blue backdrop it almost registered like a hibiscus there for a second. Mine too is in a pot. I will not add any more regular fertilizer for a while - neither Rose Tone nor Rose Feed Granules from Costco. or anything with N. I don't think I overdid those so far but all those big leaves tell me it's time to tone down the Nitrogen. Last time I fertilized I did so with Alaska liquid for bloom (no N), so I hope to see more blooms appearing on her soon, considering her healthy leaves and size. It's interesting how large the leaves are but the buds are not at this relatively late point, at least compared to other roses around her. Last year she was way ahead of everyone in terms of bud number and size - covered in over 50 buds. I remember losing count. Now I think I can only count half of that but then again, this year they all went through late frost, lost buds and had to start all over again, I am certainly not giving up on her but I do see the point of those who say "meh." Unless she is literally covered in large bloom from head to toe, she is not a catchy rose in my yard. I also seem to get less of that rosy touch I see in other people's pictures, yours included, and more bland white overall. And that's even at the start, not just when the bloom ages. Probably has to do with the sun of the South. Compared to other splashy roses, she strikes me as one of those perfect children who strive to please their parents by doing everything by the textbook (good grades and all) only for the parents to end up having a secret soft spot for a naughtier sibling with a personality, if not the black sheep of the family. :) Kinda sad. On the other hand, every time Easy Does It or Good as Gold pop up with their first bloom in the Spring, I am always mesmerized by their glow and presence. This is the first bloom of EDI. I see it looking out my kitchen window and it literally grabs me by the collar every time. OR can't do that. Good as Gold is a rascal, quite prone to BS and always seemingly going through drama - two years ago a tree branch fell on it and broke a few large canes; this year I cut it to the ground preventatively because I suspected some neighboring roses of RRD...and so on but it always bounces back and goes on Black-Spotting, being briefly beautiful in the Spring but not much else after that. Loses all leaves by fall then tries to come back a bit. It doesn't even fit with my color scheme in that flower bed but I sill can't do without it because of those spring glowy blooms. Then again, I do seem to have a preference for reddish-orange in the landscape - anything glowing like a sunset... and Olivia is doing anything but that. But I am keeping her because overall, she is a well-behaved rose.

I have Olivia as a bush in the ground and she just goes and goes all spring til frost. Perhaps she is a rose that isn’t meant to be a standard and prefers the ground vs a container. I know DA says she makes a good standard/container plant but that doesn’t nexessarily translate to real life