Looks perfect together.

Are they resistant to black spots? My minis are all prone to black spots. They lose all their leaves to black spots if leave outside.

The key is rain. If the leaves are always dry, then they never have any problem. Once it rains, the leaves start black spots that never stop.

Everything looks good right now. You will have to get it out of that wrapping and into a little bigger pot (1Gal.) very soon. These roses come from a green house and need a little help getting use to the outside. Use a good, light potting soil when transplanting. If it isn't too cold in your area, find a nice shady place outside and put it there for a week. Then move it to a semi shady (under a tree) spot for a week. After that it should be OK to put it in the area that you want. Somewhere where it will get at least 5 hrs of full sun. Dig a hole deep enough to drop the pot into and keep it watered. Not flooded. Every week, pull the pot out of the ground and check to see if there are any roots coming through the drain holes. When you see roots that means it has established a good root system. Then make your hole at least double the size it is using good potting soil. Take your rose out of the 1 Gal. pot and put it in it's new home. I have several of these roses I've done this way and they are very happily growing and putting out tons of blooms . My oldest "grocery store" mini is 6 yrs old and still doing great. Enjoy your new rose.

I don't know if it is resistant to black spot, as I haven't planted it outside yet. I have however, tried planting a few similar miniature florist roses in the garden couple years back, and its leaves do fall off from black spot. It has buds in spring but they tend to get diseased and tend to fall off before blooming.. The plants are not a sight to see, I don't want this one to succumb to the same fate. Hmm maybe I should shelter them from rain and dense fog, like in a pot underneath the balcony.

Some of those "grocery store" minis are fantastic in the garden, while others are disasters. The only way to know is to try and see what happens.

In Stockton, you won't have a high degree of disease pressure, but this coming summer you will have to make sure the plant gets sufficient water. A thick mulch around the plant to keep the soil cool and hold in moisture will help. As Ken said, get it out of the pot it is in as soon as possible. These roses are intended more as a bouquet; many people just throw them out when they start to look bad. Good care will help to it to make the transition from green house to garden.

If it doesn't make it, there are many fine garden roses in that color range that will work in your area.

Ken- I'm looking forward to planting it outside but I think it is so cold right now that I will have to wait a few months. The leaves are dark green and glossy, looks like they'll freeze right up. Thanks for the planting tips

Hoovb- Hopefully this ones a fantastic one! Yes, our heat is getting worse each year. I will be sure to add mulch. I'll find a larger pot to plant it in soon. Seems to be the best option for a plant that may require extra shelter from rain, and intense heat. Do you have suggestions for garden roses this color? I have also been looking around for something last night, and I think I found one called Paris de yves Saint Laurent Hybrid Tea Rose. It seems like a great one.

â¢Posted by dan8 Stockton, CA Zone 9 (My Page) on Fri, Jan 9, 15 at 13:36

You have the same experience as I have. Earlier, another poster said that all fancy minis are not resistant to black spots. So, please do not try.

I have great luck with growing them indoors in South or South-West windows.

Growing indoors also has a very difficult thing: that is December. All my indoor roses lost are lost in December. When the day gets shorter and shorter, the plant needs small pot and airy root with only a little moisture. Sometimes, the canes will turn black unprovoked.

However, for the rest of the year from January to November, my miniroses do great indoors. See images below:

This is a very inexpensive plant; but the beauty and continuous flowers are unmatched.

This post was edited by jujujojo on Fri, Jan 9, 15 at 19:02

I had Renata in a pot for a couple of years. It didn't make it through last years polar winter for me though. You shouldn't have any such problems in your zone. It was a very pretty mini that bloomed frequently and with good sized flowers with lots of petals. I live in black spot central so it did spot for me but I don't think you have the same disease pressures that I have so it may do much better for you.

You said you think it is too cold? How cold are we talking about? Roses are fine outside in any temperatures above freezing and do not suffer permanent damage until temps go below about 28 degrees. So if you won't get that low it will be best outside. Roses are not house plants and you stand as much chance of losing it inside as you do outside but for other reasons. Roses need SUN! Even in a sunny window they do not get adequate light. For good blooming they need about 8 hours of direct sunlight. And they like high humidities. You don't keep your home anywhere near humid enough to keep it happy. Roses are always happiest outside!

Follow Ken's advice on acclimating it to the outside. It's very good advice. As I said earlier, roses need a lot of sun to grow and bloom well so you need to get it into full sun as soon as possible. Don't worry about rain. Even in a sheltered spot if a rose is prone to black spot it will spot, rain or not. Besides, roses love rain! They like at least an inch of water per week and those humidities I was talking about before. In your hot summer the key thing you'll need to do is keep it watered! Otherwise a shot of fertilizer once in a while and it should give you many years of beautiful blooms!

One tip, DO NOT try to separate the canes in the store pot. When you go to transplant it into that gallon size pot you may find that there are 3 or 4 rooted cuttings in the pot. That's how they get these to look so full and pretty for the florist trade. A lot of people try and separate the cuttings when they repot but I don't recommend it. I'm pretty experienced at roses and cuttings and such and I've found that I almost always lose them all when I try to separate them. It isn't worth it if you want to keep this rose alive. It's much better to pot it on as one plant with as little disturbance to the root ball as possible and wait for it to grow up and then take cuttings of your own to root if you want to make more plants.

jujujojo- Your rose indoor looks great, but I don't have a sunny window like that I can use to keep it indoors. I would at least like to try planting it outside!

Seil- I'm glad to hear that you grew this one, and was able to get it blooming for a couple of years :D
There have been a few frost nights here, which dipped to the high 20's. Let's just say the buckets outside with water were about an inch frozen at the top for many nights, but my hybrid tea roses do look fine. Many other plants like Arabian Jasmine planted in the ground froze and the leaves are all wilted now. This miniature rose may be fine though if left in a more sheltered area like underneath the balcony. I am acclimating it by bringing it outside for some sunlight during the sunny days right now.

I always thought that roses hated humidity? Isn't that what causes Powdery Mildew? I love my JFK hybrid Tea blooms, but powdery mildew always gets them first when we have moist conditions. I never spray any of my roses, but I'm thinking I should give it a try this year and see how they do.

Thanks for the tip of not separating the canes. I did notice that there are 3 separate plants in that little pot and I was planning on dividing them in hopes that I would give each individual plant more room to grow.

â¢Posted by dan8 Stockton, CA Zone 9 (My Page) on Sat, Jan 10, 15 at 11:46

Dividing the small plants can be done if you are very careful. I wait the pot to be a little dry, maybe a few days before the next watering. Take out the root ball as a whole. Then, sit it on top of a huge pot of soil, I would gently divide and pull apart the root balls. Keep each divided root ball as intact as possible. I use the same sized (small) new pots for the individual plants. The new soil added should be a little dry. Let the wounds heal for a couple days before the first watering after dividing.

Those temps should not worry the rose, Dan. My temps got way below zero and stayed there for many days before this rose died for me. In a normal winter it did just fine in my winterized pot ghetto. Michigan winters are much colder for much longer than yours.

Jujujojo, I don't know how you manage it because I've killed so many separating them and I'm fairly experienced at roses and gardening. Teasing those tiny, very tender white feeder roots apart without causing damage is nearly impossible. That's why I do not recommend it. Particularly for newbies. Letting them grow up and taking cuttings to make new ones is a much safer way to go.

Jujujojo, I'm going to play it safe and keep the plants together! There roots are so bunched up I'm scared to tear too much off. You can almost see no soil, and the roots practically have grown to the rim of the top of the pot.

Seil, I never heard that phrase "pot ghetto" lol. I had to look it up, where I found a clear definition from you in another post. It's funny though, I think that any gardener who hoards plants has one and will relate to the phrase.
I am going to plant Renata outside later today in a larger pot. It's starting to drop leaves at a quick rate! It's not over watered so it must be because of the dark and dry conditions in my home. I do have it at a sunny window though.. Interesting how a grocery store can manage such a quick turnover of these since their life in these indoor tiny pot conditions are so short.
By the way, how tall did Renata grow for you? It would be great if I can get it to be 2 feet tall or so.

I just bought 'GIgi' from my local ShopRite supermarket for $2 and change and will look again over there for 'Dora' which is another of the 'Parade' series as is 'Renata'. I think the photo on the Poulsen/Roser A/S website is wrong for 'Renata'. It should be like yours is, dan_8 gw.

I have planted several mini's outside and they have all done really well. A few have been hit a few times with black spot. I usually cut them way back and they leaf right back out.

I have also seperated all of them and they all lived. I pulled the plant out and set it in a tub of water. I let it soak a while, then gently work the soul off. Once the roots are exposed it's pretty easy to work them apart if they don't just fall apart. Then I plant them like a bare rooted rose.

This was growing at Bob & Donna Martin’s home garden in Escondido, Ca.

I also have it growing in my garden. It makes a WONDERFUL cut flowers. Blooms last well over a week in a vase.

Here are a couple of pics of it. One from Bob & Donna‘s gardens and one from
Mine just after it rained.

I never realized a miniature rose could get this big!