Potted Mini Roses: Can They Go in the Garden? 

Love the video!! I'm the lady who gets everyone's little rose plants they got as gifts before they hit the garbage. I repot them, give them Miracle Grow and of course talk to them and they grow beautifully once again. Oh, yes..they usually go back to those owners to enjoy once again. Guess you can say I'm a recycling plant lady. Wouldn't have it any other way!! Enjoy your day!!

I got them for Mother’s Day 7 years ago , planted it by the edge of my front door in zone 5 and it’s still growing … adorable .

Every time I’ve ever had surgery my sister has brought me a tiny potted yellow rose( a nod to our mother) I have 5 thriving in my garden for years now

My mini roses have been growing happily in the ground for 5-6 years. They are hardy enough for my zone 5 climate without any winter protection. Once they are in the ground, they grow like crazy. My mini roses are 70-80cm tall and produce endless blooms throughout the growing season.

I grow those on my balcony for 4 years now without big problems (occasional spider mites is the only I have). They are wonderful plants and propagate easily. Essentially they could be grown as annual culture if you make cuttings in late winter.

I bought my mini rose at Safeway three years ago and put it in a pot in my vegetable garden and it is still alive big and beautiful lol

I'd love to see more videos on miniature roses...specifically propagating 😊

You always answer the questions I've asked and noone else had answered. I've always wondered about those little roses in the grocery store. Thanks for the information. " The tag that most helpfully says 'Rose...'"😂

Thank you Jason. Now I know why I can’t ever keep them alive and what to do to change that. Thanks again. 🌺💚🙃

I bought four small roses in the Winter (2 were in poor condition, and free) in late Spring (Im in PEI) planted them around the edges of my rock garden (so they had shelter, as well as the heat of the rocks). They have done very well and have been blooming continuously for months. One of the roses is in its fourth year.

I thought I knew a lot about roses but I've been learning a lot from your channel. Especially these mini roses! I never knew they could actually survive at least from my experience. After watching this video, you've given me the confidence to give them a try.

Yes, they can be transplanted directly into the garden when they seem to be under stress or when they seem only good to throw in the trash. After all, what did I have to lose? I have experimented with transplanting including in super stony but shaded ground and in garden soil and in full sun with temperatures exceeding, during the summer, 33*C (91* Fahrenheit). However, I made sure that there was plenty of water. The roses grew taller than when I had them in pots, more solid and the leaves became even healthier than when they were in pots, the flowers bigger and more abundant in conditions where fertilization was almost non-existent. And one more thing, it resists absolutely ok at negative temperatures like -25*C (-13* Fahrenheit) without additional protection. But yes, the position in which they were transplanted is protected from very strong air currents

Just got a set of two mini roses (one pink, one yellow) from 1-800-flowers, I opened them as soon as I could, got them watered and outside! Thanks for the tips, I hope to keep my gifts alive!

I have bought several of these mini roses from my local Tesco store and put them in my front garden as a border along my path and they have been and are doing amazing

I have always been unable to resist those adorable little mini roses. B/c they are own root it's actually pretty tough to kill them if once they get established; I have a fabulous dusty mauve plant that I've had for ages---probably bought it at the grocery store. It grows like mad, is SO easy to take cuttings from, & smells wonderful. I just recently succumbed to 2 pots of a beautiful silvery lavender from Kordana---no name but smells great. I'm hoping they survive the transition & the sunburn (forgot to open the patio umbrella one sunny day!), & that their color isn't the result of special lighting. I would add one thing to your instructions---introduce them to full sun gradually (like, don't forget to open that umbrella!!).

My father and mother put two of those kind of mini roses, that came from the supermarket, in the garden more than 10 years ago. They are still going strong and are blooming.

My first rose 😊 Bought some first year of gardening three years ago. Still alive in bigger containers. A splash of color helps when toiling in garden lol

Funny. This video was in my recommended list. Looked interesting, so I clicked and watched it. I thought it deserved a thumbs up, went to click, BUT i saw i had already clicked the thumbs up. 😂 completely forgot that I already viewed this video. Still, it is quite informative and am glad for the refresher. ❤

Jason you are looking fantastic, the weight you took off has made you look 10 yrs younger. I have been watching your videos for years. You have the best info out there. Cheers!

I feel really lucky having done exactly that with my supermarket rose no more than two days before finding this video in yt recommendations. I put it in a pot outside my southfacing window, on top of that AC unit thingy

I bought one at Walmart from clearance section. I separated and put them into ground. All the four rose plants took off. They all are blooming. I hope they survive this winter.

Thank you Jason for another informative video. When I received mine, that is exactly what I did. 1st up-potted them, and then later I incorporated them in to my garden. They are still doing great and it is 4 years later! 😊

I planted mine into the garden after it got to hot at the cemetery from my grand daddy’s grave and she’s doing amazing :)

Mine are planted outdoors and they come back every year!😊

Planted a mini rose from ALDI cost £2.29 and it is now 3ft tall and covered in a mass of beautiful roses.

I have my mini roses from 2yrs ago now and still look great!

I lost my mom and need to move soon. The roses i have either going to my cousin or friend. I'm thinking about buying 4 or 5 small potted roses to bring with me. This advice come right on time. A huge thank you!

I've had success with these also. I have two that I've grown on in the garden but mine were single plants in the pot, not a group of separate stems. Of course, I have a secret advantage since I live in Roseville, CA. They have to grow well here.

Useful. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing this so these plants can hopefully be saved from the trash! Seeing plants treated as disposable feels icky to me. I grabbed one of these roses from the curb years ago and they've struggled since. Hopefully now that I understand roses a bit better, I can help them recover. They have an amazing smell, which seems unusual for these grocery store roses.

Thanks for information

Thank you! you videos are great and straight to the point!

Thanks! It’s been hard to find this info

Very helpful thanks

Mahvelous dahlink! Can t wait to do that next spring! Thanks Jason.

Very good helpful

Thank you!

Nice tips

Love this helpful video of yours. I do have mini roses which I planted in my garden. They are doing well. I like your idea of replanting the mini roses plants into another pot. Thanks for this idea. 👍💯

Years ago just for fun I planted one of these roses outside and it grew into a huge shrub, actually very pretty. Then I moved 🤨

Jason, I never gave it much thought. But I can see now that they are just young cuttings, so it makes sense that you would up pot and treat as cuttings. Makes me want to go buy and experiment with them.

I have 4 planted in my garden. Each represents 4 family members who have passed. They are growing beautifully. Tallest one is about 4'.

Just wanted to say “hi!” and to thank you for all your wonderful videos! Seattle ♥️🇺🇸

Miniature roses have always been a downer for me. Thank you so much for explaining them. I atill don't want any, but if I ever get another, I'll do what you have taught us to do. Thank you, Jason.

WOW, your videos are very useful, straight forward, and offer all of the information I need to educate myself concerning my plants. I love this site. Thank you for teaching all of us.

Yes they can! But you may have to sacrifice the other ones that are grown too close together. Mine is about waist height now once transplanted into the garden, all thanks to Jason’s advice 😊. The blooms are incredibly long lasting and durable but doesn’t have as much scent as I would have liked. They rarely ever remain miniature though.

Great video again, Jason and Lisa. I have a couple of painted minis outside. Flowers low, flowers high. Thanks for teaching me how to propicate through your videos. I will keep watching. Jeremy and Gennifer from Abbotsford 😊

Thanks for this video! I planted my rose straight into the garden and now it is growing well and is on its second bloom. Last year when I did the same, my rose did not survive the winter in UK so I'll see what happens this time.

I treat them as an annual, I even had one bloom the next Summer! One of my favorite "annuals".

Thank you for a short, straight to the point very informational video. I’ve received many of these over the years and they always died. Now I know why. I have one I’m repotting today and now I know what I’m doing. Excellent video!

I got a mini rose plant from the grocery store in April and it's doing great. I dead head its almost twice as big as when I got it 🙂🙂

My mini roses have been growing happily in the ground for 3 years, and I at more every year, I have 15 in ground ,zone 8B

Thanks Jason for highlighting these! 😃I bought a few last year as I couldn't resist the colours they came in! I put them in my planters to enjoy throughout the summer and I wintered them over. They bloomed all summer long this season as well! Next step and challenge for me might be trying to take a few cuttings. I also put a few in the garden bed itself and one came back and bloomed! 😃😃😃

Really useful. You are looking particularly healthy, much like your roses.

I got 4 of those early this summer and repotted straight away. 2 survived and 2 dried out. Those were my first roses ever so I think it wasn’t too bad 😂 I will get more next year, I fall in love with mini roses now

I got sent one of these little roses through the mail by a friend. A few years and a lot of pruning later it's thriving in a pot on my patio and has tons of flowers that last for ages, but unfortunately have no fragrance

I have one my husband got me about 5 years that I have in a large pot and get an abundance of blooms every year.

I managed to hang on to mine this year - tucked out under a well established rose (gave it an adopted mommy) and it’s bloomed and grown well this summer. Now, how to overwinter…thinking leaf mulch and learn to toughen up. Lol

I'm in Upstate New York and mine survived winter just fine. They've about doubled in size and are just starting to bloom

Yeah, my miniature rose bush grave yard is massive. I always thought it was my poor ability, which I guess maybe it was since I didn't know the right things to do for them. I actually have 3 right now that are hanging by a thread, but at least trying to give a bit of new growth. For people who are ready to give up, just keep trying. You really have to get them into the right conditions. They may even need a serious cut down if they show signs of disease. Just don't use dirty pruning shears, clean them first.

i recieved one as a gift and it grew and bloomed very nicely with hardly any brown leaves.....it was kept in my windowsill where there was tons of sunlight and warmth

I love these comments and the video! Thank you, all!

I've grown these mini (own-root) roses outdoors; there can be as many as 5 rooted cuttings in a pot which may be individually separated, planted in the garden and hilled for winter. Surprised I was to find that some came with a Kordes tag and a name to the variety. A pity they're thrown out because they're perfectly good roses. They do benefit from a cool, dormant period (like any other rose) otherwise; they may not flourish indoors and are susceptible to spider mites.

I put my miniature rose on my aquaponics grow bed that is in my low heat garage over a year and a half ago. Its had spider mites, aphids, leafhoppers…. Any time it gets badly infested I just stripped the leaves, trimmed the stems back and a month later it was recovered! I got a shock though when it sent up some suckers… huge stems (over 1/4”diameter) that rose up to 4ft tall before they got too heavy for the pot/roots that went through the bottom of the pot and tipped it over! 😂

You showed Crackling Fire and my heart skipped a beat! So glad you presented this information. You may have saved a bunch of very lovely Roses and some with fragrance from the trash. Do you think it would be better to put them in the ground before they get sad looking? Thank you for another cool video! Still need Crackling Fire though!❤

Thank you so much for your educational videos, I do so appreciate them. This past spring I bought some miniature tea roses from home Depot here in Alberta. I did as you showed in your video I repotted the roses into a larger pot, with intentions for placing them out on my patio. One of the repotted plants must have had spider mites as they had lost all of its leaves. I thought that I would just spray it down with safer soap and see how it progressed from there. At the time it was too cold to place the repotted roses outside as it got warmer I put it out on my front step where it had partial sun and shade. They started to recuperate slowly and that gave me great joy and pride. Now I have some beautiful rosebuds coming up and the branches are nice and full with foliage. On Thursday, I gave them their first dose of fertilizer probably too late in the season. My question is now that I have my roses on the right track how do I winter them inside the house?? Thank you so much keep up the great work.

I have a mini rose growing in the ground by our tiny library. I think it is at least three years old.

Thanks for all the information you provide on your channel. It's been a big help over the past couple years since I discovered you. I received one of these few years ago from my partner and it was also supermarket store buy, only mine was a single plant. I was that person you described as sentimental and not wanting to let something die. I took it as a challenge and now I'm working on familiarizing myself with growing roses, but I had a few questions about these miniatures: First, like yours mine only said 'Rose' on the label and I never discovered the name. What is the miniature you are showing? Also, are there any differences in propagating these smaller guys from cuttings? Are they easy to breed? Again, thank you for what you do!

Awesome video, thanks for sharing. so I got some mini roses for my patio container garden. I used fox farms ocean forest soil, they love it. I was having a battle with bugs such as Japanese beetles, aphids, and thrips. Deheaded. Removed all dead stuff. Sooooooo I got bioadvanced. Missed the part where it says not recommended for potted plants. THEY FRIED, border line went up in flames. Tried to flush it out, which made them even more mad. I have 3 of these things trying to recover. 1 I trashed. Moving forward can I use the bio advanced at half strength, if not, what do you recommend on potted mini roses.

My little sister got me one of these for my birthday and it has turned out to be one of the most beautiful plants in my garden! I don’t even like mini roses, lol! But these are really beautiful and that sucker is by far the healthiest rose that I own! It makes me so irritated because I have all these really nice David Austin roses, and I’ve spent so much money trying to buy all the good fertilizers for them, and I spent so much time taking care of them.. but this stupid little grocery store rose ended up being completely disease resistant, it’s always super healthy, and it produces like a workhorse!

My rose is still going strong (on a windowsill), but I prune it and feed it often. Now I'm thinking of getting a fairy rose for the balcony (have no garden). Not sure how that would go. Winters are pretty harsh, so mybe with overwintering inside? I absolutely adore roses, but am currently not in a position to afford a garden 😣

Divide straight away by repotting or planting in the garden. Jason takes 2 cuttings per pot, bare root roses are just one plant. Why should you plant 6 roses close together? Mind that these need not be mini roses! The flowers may just be small because the plants are so young and so crowded! I got such a plant last that I later divided. Turns out to be Tantau's Sirius, and is now 60cm in my garden. The division I left in a 4 liter pot is still only 20cm tall with one bloom.

Do you have a video for pruning miniature roses in winter?

hi can make videos how to water nursery potted rose plant thanks

Thank you Jason for this very helpful video. I would like to know whether this type of rose will survive in zone 5a?

Thanks for the info. Looks like it will be easier than I thought to keep these. Do they need to be hardened off, or can you just put them straight outside when the weather warms? AND, if they are put outside into a pot, should they be brought back inside for the winter?

Nice video. What can I do to prevent spider mites aphids and leaf hoppers? I just bought two and I’m really into preventing or pro active approach vs reactive after the fact. I just heard about neem cake for pest control but haven’t tried it yet. What do you think? Any suggestions for pest control? Ty for your very informational videos

Sink them in the ground up to zone 5 - fertilize with a 15 40 15 or , 20 20 20 often , they do AMAZING things I manage to get then to produce big blooms BIG - they are very cost effective

All the ones which I bought myself a while ago at the local grocery store are still blooming like crazy, in slightly larger pots. I'm planning to get them into the ground at a new property as soon as some trees get cut down & I can do more weeding & collecting of years of neglected dead branches etc. Since the tall blackberries are fantastic in what is otherwise a mess, I assume that the soil is great below the deep debris. I plan to put a soft delicate ground cover over the area where the roses will be put, already have 180 potted plants moved to the large shed on the lot since we now get colder rain & winds here in my area. Most of August was like Fall! Should I separate the roses at planting next week or leave them clumped in groups as they are now? Are they as touchy as larger roses as to how deep to set them into the soil?

I buy them especially to collect different colours. I repot them and they stay in the garden all year round after they’ve stopped blooming.

Great video, thank you. Just wondering, how often would you liquid feed with fish fertiliser?

After a coupled of bad incidences, I planted mine in their own bed with some nurturing and they are doing well. The nicety of giving miniature roses on an occasion should be presented with a proviso to get them in the ground and forget the advertising of potted roses. I don't think such a thing exists.

will you make a update video on this rose?

I have had transplant mini roses in the garden for a year now, but as soon as their leaves grow, they immediately fall off. will give them bigger pots.

I just got some of these today because I love them and I've tried to keep them indoors. They always die. You said these aren't well rooted so would rooting hormone mixed in water with some legit nutritious potting soiladded to what's already in the little pot work better?

I live in southern Alberta and I was wondering if I should leave them outside, in the pot, over winter or will they be fine in the extreme winter conditions . (I revived them when they were near death!)

Advise for mini roses (tag said kordana I think) in a norther great lakes region? 4a/4b region. Idk if they can stay outside 😅 I got them in June for national rose month when my kids suckered me into them, they've been pretty healthy so far, but I want to keep them. They're in a pot now. I was unsure if I should bring them inside or how to overwinter them.

Got lucky and got a load of these little babies from a big box store $5.00/ea on the day they came in no stress showing at all. They went directly into containers or the ground and have been blooming all summer. I find them hardy in the ground in my zone 6. Do you think they would survive the winter outside in a container in my zone? Thanks!

I've just been given a potted rose called marbled rose .it has moss coving the soil shall I leave it there

So I got one a few days ago … beautiful now ? Not AS much but she still cute but now that you pointed out it’s like 4 pieces okay …I did repot it cause it looked to big for itself and as for outside I have it in my balcony in my lower Texas It’s in shock? Me too buddy that’s why I got you ..okay…so I actually cut several of its flower heads right now before you said “only after they bloom” and I paused but Iva also hear people say it helps focus nutrients …it also had a lot and it look like the neck of some of the flowers were dying anyways …it had like 17 or more roses head …decapitated like 6 but felt like more also getting rid of yellow leaves (using nail clippers) uuh I watered it with some miracle grow as I watered the rest of my plants …but I don’t know how long it’ll take to adjust so here hoping it makes it

Unfortunately I saw a video which recommended separating the 4 plants rather than your solution of a much bigger pot for all. I noticed you didnt even loosen the roots. Ater potting I kept them plastic bagged with high humidity and as much light as possible, moving them from window to window. I fed them with manure tea. Two died, one doesn't look as if it will make it, the fourth is starting to sprout high up on a very straggly stem. I wont pinch back until I know it's much stronger. I've taken it out of the bag and mist it a couple of times a day. It can't go out yet, I'm in eastern Ontario. Is there anything else I should be doing? Should it stay in the bag for a while longer? If so, how do I know when to take it out? Thanks for anything else you can suggest.

I did the same with a pot of yellow miniature rose. After I transplanted it outside and it made new leaves and buds, the new flowers are now orange instead of yellow. Is it because of my garden soil, have I put too much fertilizer?

Is hardening off different in the Fall?

I brought the one j got given inside over winter and it’s with my seedlings under grow lights so does it need to be hardened off?

Once they’re repotted, and outside, how often do they need water?

Hi jason, Am from uk can you pls suggest me pls.... I got 2 supermarket miniature roses at this month in end of october so after finish flowering can i store them in unheated green house during winter until next spring will they survive ?

Living in Princeton area, the chances of these little beauties surviving our cold winters outdoors is basically nil. Or is it?

I bought one mini rose 20 years ago, planted them in my gardens and they grew into big roses. Don't remember what it's name is

Shake of the compost they're potted in, and plant them in the garden. Mine have lasted years!

Anything special for winter being in a pot?