Hi Usually the gift roese like you received are not potted in the best of soil and they are usually it a pot that is way to small for them. Roses need sunlight and that means grown outside. Your rose was most likely grown in a greenhouse and pushed to bloom out of season. Look at the post "How to save a Potted Gift Rose and you should be able to save the rose. Good Luck.

Depends on where you have your rose. Are you keeping it inside? Roses do not like to be inside unless you have very sophisticated lighting and moisture control. Now if you do have your rose outside and the leaves are turning yellow it could be just normal depending on how many leaves are yellow. roses shed older leaves all the time which is normal or it could just be the climate change. Most roses people ask about are "store bought" roses and they are grown in greenhouses and then sold to stores where they are kept inside. This requires them to be "hardened off" which means to put them outside in semi shade for a few hours everyday for a week or so and then they can be left outside. These "Store Bought" mini roses are hard to kill if treated properly and planted outside in the ground or even in a big pot (12" or larger). Good luck and Happy Gardening! Ms.Mary

Dizzy, it was definitely thrips. The horrible thing is they come back! My roses are now on a spraying schedule. I switch back and forth from an organic spray with spinosad as the main ingredient, and the Bayer Advanced Systemic(not the one with fertilizer that you water in the ground). I don't want them getting immune to them, so i alternate. Once you see damage, it's really too late for that shoot. You won't be able to recover the leaves, buds, or new shoots. The thrips suck the sap and juices from the base of the leaves, shoots, and buds causing deformity and stunted growth. Flowers won't bloom, or will bloom with microscopic petals. If i see damage, I immediately start the spraying routine: Thoroughly water all your rose plants deeply in the morning. In the afternoon, i remove all damaged leaves, shoots, and buds. finally, in the early evening i start the spraying. You don't want to spray the plants when the scorching afternoon sun is out. drench all healthy shoots, and make sure the spray gets in the base of every leaf and bud.

Looks like spider mites. Check under the leaves for webbing and mites moving around. Use a systemic granular miticide applied to the soil surface. The usual water wash under-foliage treatment for big rose mite infestations is almost impossible to do to mini roses. Moses