A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2006 Got 2 miniature roses today.

My mom is the banguet manager at a restaurant and they put min

sry aciidently sent that!! anyway she got me 2 from where she works because i've never had any roses and i really wanted some. Can i get some information on how to -care for them. Theyre outside and it rained today so i dont have to worry about that. Thanks in advance.

plant them outside quick lol. I've never had any luck with them indoors. Now I don't even bring them in the house they go straight to the garden. Once there they do great. You can treat them like any other rose. They enjoy having their rose food put in the hole before you plant them and having epsom salt added to their water or scratched into their soil periodically through the growing season. They like it in sunny locations.

You will probably find when you pull them out of the pot that there are several in there. Give them some space and next year you will find your plant to be much fuller. Taller too with heavier stems although the flowers stay small.

I love my miniature roses, I hope you enjoy yours just as much.

Yeah, what TK said is true. You can also feed them diluted beer (I used what would be left in the bottom of bottles) and they will thank you with an abundance of blooms.

But, here's some more info on roses that you might can use. http://lady_sensual.tripod.com/id7.html that will take you to my page on roses on my site. Still have MUCH work to do on the site, but, the info on there is still good.

Thanks!!!

I have found that they do not do well indoors-they seem not to have enough air circulation and develope spider mites but I hear outside is good for them as they are like regular roses and like full sun.Good luck and enjoy!

I've had three miniature roses for four years and when I bought them I was told they would not do well inside. I didn't know if they would come back where I live in zone 5, but they did and are still doing fine. I use rose food on them and they seem to like it. The nice thing about the miniature roses is that they don't get very big.