Indoor rose bushes

TomsMom

Probably a stupid question but I'm not really a gardener and house plants always seem to die on me so I no longer buy any. A friend has given me a small rose bush for the garden in memory of my mother. On checking the packaging for care instructions it's written in Dutch and I've translated it online and it says it's an indoor plant. My friend wanted me to plant it in the garden. Would it survive outside? I live on the coast in Wales and we rarely get snow here.

DaftyDuck

I often give my wife the miniature rose bushes (aaahhh, see, I am a sweetie) that claim they're indoor plants for a windowsill. They flower beautifully for a couple of weeks, then peg out. That is, until I started just sticking them in bigger pots in the garden, and there they thrive like mad. We've carted some pots of them around for nigh on 20 years of house moves, and they still thrive.

So, unless it's a very specialised exotic of some kind, it'll do fine in the garden. Roses are, in general, some of the toughest, most frost-proof plants there are.

Does it have a variety name, by any chance?

TomsMom

DaftyDuck wrote: »

I often give my wife the miniature rose bushes (aaahhh, see, I am a sweetie) that claim they're indoor plants for a windowsill. They flower beautifully for a couple of weeks, then peg out. That is, until I started just sticking them in bigger pots in the garden, and there they thrive like mad. We've carted some pots of them around for nigh on 20 years of house moves, and they still thrive.

So, unless it's a very specialised exotic of some kind, it'll do fine in the garden. Roses are, in general, some of the toughest, most frost-proof plants there are.

Does it have a variety name, by any chance?

Unfortunately not, it's one of these, a yellow one but no label with any name on. Not as many flower heads on it as that and the flowers are a bit bigger than in the picture.

I've put it on my patio for now so I think I'll either put it in a bigger pot or find a spot in the border for it.

Thanks very much for your reply.

sobie

they will need hardening off, one frost and they won't like it, if they've been in a hot indoor department. But once hardened off they grow perfectly well outdoors for many years.

Watch out for suckers though - as these are generally little cuttings they throw suckers up all over the place.

DaftyDuck

Yes, it's ones like that, but normally red, that I give the Mrs Duck. They'll grow just fine outdoors for years. Once they have flowered, I cut them right back, plant them in a big pot, and just wait. They always survive. I agree hardening them off would be recommended, and if there's a harsh frost in the first few months I'd protect them, but there are three or four pots of them outside somewhere, and they've survived with absolutely no attention.