Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube. Gaye Hammond. Submit a Comment Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Our Authors. The Arbor Gate. Greg Grant. Bill Adams. Angela Chandler. Linda Gay. Shawna Lee Coronado. Their compact mounds of flowers in the foreground accent taller background plants like iris, gladiolas, and dahlias. For texture and fullness, combine mini roses with succulents and groundcovers.
Invite hummingbirds and beneficial insects into the rose garden with salvia, lemon thyme, and lavender. They will add life to the garden and keep aphids and other pests that may appear on the leaves and flowers to a minimum.
Miniature roses are incredibly versatile adding natural charm and romance to spaces that are impractical for full-size roses. Small containers in 4-inch and 8-inch sizes brighten up a dining room, bedroom, bathroom, or office and make a fabulous centerpiece at a wedding or special event.
During the long winter months when colorful plants are scarce, these beauties are readily available year-round in supermarkets, florists, or garden centers. After they finish blooming, you can plant mini roses outdoors in a sunny perennial garden, along a walkway, in a container, or in a hanging basket.
To prepare for the move from indoors to outdoors, cut back the stems about three inches above the pot, place in a bright sunny window, and keep the soil moist. New shoots will naturally develop which may need to be cut a second time after about six weeks. Move mini roses outdoors after the danger of freezing has passed. Just toss the plant and soil in with the other yard waste or add to a backyard compost pile. Then recycle the pot and care tag. Some people mistakenly believe that miniature roses are difficult to grow.
Not true! They require much less space than their larger cousins, coordinate beautifully with other plants, and are hardy bloomers for their diminutive size. The plant features many-petaled, old-fashioned flowers in shades of apricot-peach. It grows about 18 inches tall. Other minis flower regularly in flushes of bloom throughout the season, with short periods of rest between flushes. The pinkish-salmon "Mandarin" Rosa "Mandarin" by the German house of Kordes is a good example of a regular repeater.
Hardy in USDA zones 6b through 9b, it grows about 12 inches tall. To produce the maximum number of blooms, miniature roses need the same conditions as larger roses. The plants should be sited where they will receive at least six hours of full sunlight per day. Regular moisture is a plus, especially if the minis are in containers.
If the roses are in-ground in the garden, apply organic mulch around them to conserve soil moisture. Deadhead the spent flowers as the plants finish blooming, and trim back the blooming stems by about one-third at the same time.
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