I am sorry for not visiting this earlier. The rose culture depends on your zone and climate. The balcony is located near living quarters; this makes the place a little warmer. The pot size is dependent upon the size of the plant and surface area of all the leaves. The roses are very vigorous and they grow well easily in my opinion. This post was edited by jujujojo on Tue, Jul 16, 13 at 18:39

Moe, wooden barrels are fine for temporary plantings. The wood rots out after a few seasons, leaving you with a real witch of a repotting chore. What kinds of trees are you talking about and how far away from where your first choice for the roses are they? How close to the house will you have to plant the roses if you choose ground option 2? It's possible the roots may not be an issue. It's also possible the sun along the house may be quite sufficient. That spot I would want to determine three things about...how intense would the reflected/radiated heat from the house walls or any paving be? How decent would the drainage be? Depending upon where you are, the age of the construction and local building codes, it might be you have engineered soil which is compacted to remove all air space, eliminating drainage, but making it more secure footing. And, how extreme would alkalinity leaching from the house foundation be for the planting holes? If you're going to pot the roses, you will need tall trellises upon which to grow them and those become sails with any wind. Plan on picking them up regularly if it's windy where you are. Large, more permanent pots, such as concrete, would last worlds longer and be heavier making them more stable in the wind, but you would still have the issue of the drainage water leaking out on the paving upon which the pots will rest. If you go that route, put smaller, bush type roses in them so they can't as easily blow over and once the pots fail, you won't have a horribly prickly, Jack and the Beanstalk plant to repot. That job CAN be done, but it's often worth paying someone else to accomplish. It ain't NO danged fun! Been there. (I was the one paid to accomplish it and I looked as if I'd been making love to a bale of barbed wire!) If the tree root issue is potentially too extreme for your comfort, do some more exploration concerning planting them by the house. I think that may be your safest, easiest choice. Kim

I haven't found 'Colombia' here so far. Do you think 'Felicia' would be happy in a pot in the heat? I've read that it could be trained as a short climber and HelpMeFind lists it as suitable for containers. Same questions for 'Eglantyne'. I also noticed a climbing 'Souvenir de la Malmaison' (stingy repeater?) and a climbing 'Yves Piaget' (the regular version blooms all summe here) in a catalgoue which I can't find much info about. I love Boncrow's suggestion of Clothilde Soupert but the climber sounds like it gets pretty big too.

All right, with the help of HMF, I've narrowed it down to Awakening, Iceburg, Cecile Brunner Climbing, and Rosarium Uetersen. In other locations, I'm interested in Fair Bianca, The Fairy, Crown Princess Marguerite, Abraham Darby, Zephirine Droughin (definitely getting to grow on a fence!!), and Souvenir de la Malmaison. HOW do you narrow it down>? :) I've discovered that I'm only interested in the 'double ruffled' and fairly continuous bloom varieties. Dirt Digger, thank you so much for the list. Going to look those up!