Bluegirl... Yes, it is a florist rose, but that means it may do well in your heat because florist roses are bred for hothouse conditions. KStrong ........ Please don't laugh, but you can control a botrytus outbreak with cinnamon. I have a friend that uses it in her greenhouse and garden regularly to control fungus and always uses it for her seedlings. It's a practice handed down from her grandmother. I used a cinnamon paste when I did my snow-tip pruning in early winter to avoid rain-borne pathogens on the pruning cuts and, so far, I have not seen any of the usual symptoms of canker where I pruned. Of course, it may be too early to tell in that we are having a colder winter than usual. Smiles, Lyn

I love the Tantau roses I've acquired so far. I have three Bernstein-Rose (the full name) bushes which are small plants whose blooms look a lot like Julia Child's. The blooms are the same size as Julia's, but the plants are way smaller. I have them located on a lower level below my two JCs to kind of echo the Julias. B-R is very healthy with dark shiny green leaves and a nice compact growth habit. It's never supposed to have much size which is what I wanted in the small spaces they grow in. I also have had two stunning Tantau Ascot grandiflora roses for a year which I have been raving about for a while. The bareroot plants took off like rockets and are always in bloom. And they are only a year old. Don't overlook Tantau. Diane

Well, RR, where do I begin? First off, where did you get those seeds? Ebay, perchance? I hate to break it to you but you may well have been scammed. There are some very unscrupulous dealers on there and others who bought seeds this way ended up with anything from roses to radishes. You need to know that roses DO NOT grow true to variety from seeds. There are a very few exceptions in the wild rose category that will self seed and grow true but all other varieties, especially modern hybrid tea roses like Osira, do not. Each individual seed will be it's own new variety. It may look similar to either of it's parents or it may look like any of the roses that went into the parents breeding but it will not be the same rose. So Osira seeds will not grow Osira rose bushes. The only ways to to grow roses true to their original variety is by rooted cuttings or bud grafting. Basically cloning. Secondly, not knowing exactly what your growing set up is, I will tell you that, for the most part, roses HATE to be inside. It is very difficult to produce the right temperature, humidity and light combination that will make them happy and thrive. I have tried many things and never succeeded in keeping even the small mini roses alive indoors for more than a couple of months. Barely long enough for winter to end and I can plant them outside.where they immediately perk up. I do hybridize roses and start my seedlings in January inside under lights during the winter. But as soon as it's warm enough for them to go outside they do! Sometimes that's as early as March if at all possible. They always struggle until they get out in natural sunshine and humidities and then they take off like gangbusters! If you'd like to know how I do my seeds send me a PM with your email address and I'll send you the paper I did for my rose society. Or go to the link below which is the Propagation forum and you'll find tons of info on how to grow rose seeds. There are as many ways to do it as there are growers, lol! Here is a link that might be useful: Propagation forum on GW

I also grow love.. Beautiful but quite different from Osiria, whose color is much deeper red. Love is much flatter when opened. How about fire and ice???