All of these roses are easy to care for (disease resistant resistant, stellar performers, etc) and suitably compact for growing in containers in a small garden.
From top to bottom and left to right: (1) All the Rage (2) Firecracker (3) Grandma’s Blessing (4) Superhero (5) Sweet Fragrance (6) Yellow Submarine (7) Little Mischief (8) Snow Drift (9) Kiss Me (10) Home Run
Check out this post for more info on growing roses in containers (and some rose container ideas too).
Do you have a favorite easy-to-grow rose?
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I’m growing the ‘Chris Evert’ rose in a big terra cotta container. It’s orange and it reminds me of halloween. I’m thinking of planting nasturtium seeds around it so I eventually don’t see the dirt. Will it sufficate me rose? What do you think?
I’ve read that nasturtiums don’t like a lot of fertilizer — it makes them leave profusely, but cuts down on or eliminates the blooms. At the same time, I find I have to fertilize my container roses regularly to keep them blooming. So maybe nasturtiums could work, but maybe there are easier/better choices?
I’m in need of some good suggestions for companion plants for container grown roses as well. Right now I’m thinking of viola’s for the fall/winter, but not sure of summers plants.
Oh, but I’m growing nasturtiums in window boxes for the first time, so my knowlege is from reading books/articles, not based on my experiences.
Adriana–sdat is right, roses are heavy feeders and nasturtiums produce the most flowers in poor quality dirt. What about catmint? It’s a traditional companion to roses and ‘Walker’s Low’ will stay compact enough to not overwhelm the rose. It has blue flowers that will look awesome with the orange flowers on your rose.
sdat–In addition to catmint, these are some more plants I think look good with roses:
-Cranesbill (especially ones with blue flowers)
-Santa Barbara Daisy (or other small daisy-like flowers)
-Lobelia (especially trailing varieties)
Thanks for the suggestions! I was thinking about some trailing lobelia as one alternative, and I think I’m leaning towards a blue variety of trailing lobelia for one of my rose containers (and then put the pansies/viola’s in along with the lobelia for the fall/winter). I’ll look for the other plants you recommended for my other rose bush!
Got it… This flower stuff is new to me =D
I planted blue trailing lobelia under one bush. This rose is having a lot of problems this year! And may not make it… so I’m hesitant to post a picture. But at least now the pot looks nice with lobelia in it.
Still undecided what to plant around the second container rose bush.