Roses in Pots...

**David King greenman@ucla.edu>**

Hi, all...

I grow ALL of my roses in pots right now as I have no garden.  I have 15 roses in pots, 7 of which I dug from the ground at my last home and put into pots to take 
with me - all were not readily available or had been a gift from someone.  Only Tuscany Red has not fared so well as it is a fairly old rose and not inclined to such 
restrictions.  Most of mine are David Austins and I'm caring for my ex-girlfriend's hybrid teas.  Teas and floribundas can be grown in 3-5 gallon pots easily for 
several years (5 gallons should be considered the minimum after 1 year).  The majority of mine are in 3 gallon paper/fiber pots and ready to burst their seems, but 
finances are dictating that there they shall stay for the time being.

I brought two of my favorites along as cuttings and they have been potted on into terra cotta pots by now.  Both of them singles - Captain Thomas, a bit of a rare 
bird and Kathleen, which I kept for sentimental reasons, love of her thorns was not one of them.  For some reason, Kathleen's thorns have a prediliction to home in 
on some fleshy part of one's body wiht laser like precision and they hurt much worse than the average thorn.

But, in a rolled rim Italian pot 36" across, right now I have 5 roses; the oldest two, a Peace and a Pascali, were planted in half whiskey barrels at least 8 years ago 
and 2 years ago, I moved them into the terra cotta.  So, yes. roses do fine in a pot - of course, in Los Angeles, I have no freezing to contend with.  That might be 
a problem, but I can't address that - the last time I gardened in a climate with freezing was 1975.

david - who hopes to get ONE Jude one of these days - king

>I didn't know that you could keep roses in pots for a year or two. What size 
>pots? What soil medium do you use?Were any of them inside during the winter? 

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