Porcelain Roses

When you receive your bare rooted Porcelain Roses, place in a bucket full of lukewarm water overnight. These rose bushes grow best when planted in the ground. Prepare a large hole, loosen the soil and improve it with good quality compost mixed with granulated cow manure. Spread the roots of the roses out and plant them at the appropriate depth. The base of the stem should be about 5 cm below the soil surface, as they are sensitive to frost. If the soil and roots are dry, a bucket of water should be gently emptied into the planting hole. Fill the hole with the soil and press firmly with your foot. For a rich bloom the Porcelain Roses require a sunny position.

These mini roses have an incredibly rich bloom. Their sturdy stems are loaded with hundreds of hearty yellow, orange, pink and red roses. They can grow well in a large pot, but they also grow well in the garden. You can plant a border of Porcelain Roses, but you can also use them as ground cover plants. This variety will look wonderful planted in an area that is surrounded with a buxus hedge.

Porcelain Roses are very free-flowering miniature roses. The bushy shrubs become totally covered with adorable flowers. Their compact growth makes them ideal for the patio. The bush is not too large and has no problem fitting into a flower pot or planter!

To prolong flowering deadhead the faded flowers, cut away to the first leaf with five leaflets. Porcelain Roses require feeding to produce an abundance of flowers. Apply manure to your roses regularly and in the winter sprinkle granulated cow manure around the base of the stem. Give it a mixed organic fertilizer early in the spring and special rose manure in July. To protect its fragile roots during the winter, we recommend forming a small mound around its base. Before you carry out any pruning in the spring distribute this earth into the border.

The Porcelain Roses need to be pruned every spring. In March prune all branches back until there are 3-5 eyes left (these are dormant buds that are difficult to detect). Leave about five of the strongest branches per shrub. Always cut at an angle so that rain water can drip off. Also remove any unwanted suckers from the roots and any growth that is either dead or diseased. The roses that you'll receive from us have already been pruned, so they only need to be pruned again the following year.