What are the best kind of rose for large containers?

Question

I live in central Oklahoma. And my front yard recieves sun from early morning till about 2:30pm.(central time). I have these big flower pots. They are 2ft in diameter and about 2-1/2ft deep. I'm not very good at gardening with roses. But , love the flowers they produce. I have such a rough time with black spot fungus and leaf yellowing. I need to know, what kind of roses can be grown in such container, with the sun in that area. Something that needs little care and are easy to grow. And rejects diseases.

Answer 1

Hi, Crystal
Stillwater here. Stay away from Hybrid teas because they are disease prone and suffer black spot horribly. Stick with the heirlooms, old roses, Hybrid musk, and English roses.

Here is one of my favorite rose breeders. they have a selection of roses that do great in large containers. Here is that page.
http://www.davidaustinroses.com/american/Advanced.asp?PageId=2018
According to David Austin roses, any English rose is appropriate for a container.

Here is another fave of mine and they offer a variety of roses including English roses.
http://www.heirloomroses.com/cgi/browse.cgi?page=item&cat=13&item=248

Hope this helps

Answer 2

I am not exactly sure what roses will work well in your climate and your planting expertise. However, I feel the need to give you alittle advice on how to maintain them to provide the most care for them. Good luck, I have many rose types in my garden, stemming from climbers, shrubs and bushes. I love them all and I have even gone as far a succesfully splitting a rose bush and planting them next to each other making two distinct bushes that are flowering beautfully as I write this.

Soil Preparation
Many professional growers use this in their pots:
Top lay is very sandy
Lower level is clay
The soil in the pots is a mixture of commercial potting soil, nitrohumus, super-phosphate, and soil polymer.

Watering
Container grown roses take more water because it drains right thru the contains. this is where polymers like Broadleaf P4 come in handy. Add a teaspoon of Dry P4 to every 5 gallon container and 1 tablespoon dry P4 to a large 25 gallon barrel. Use the soft shower version of your watering hose.

Fertilze roses every week during show season and then twice a month the rest of the year. Rotate with Miracle-Gro, Fish Emulsion, Alfalfa Pellets, Epsom Salts, plus you can add Iron Chelate and Zinc once a month.

Always make sure you have watered your roses well the day before feeding. if you feed (or fertilize) a dry plant especially one in a pot, you can burn the roots and even kill the plant.

Repotting
Container grown roses need to be repotted every 3 years. They become rootbound if they stay in the same pot. Simply loosen the soil at the sides of the pot, then pull the entire plant out. the best time to repot is during the cool months. You can move them up to a larger size at this time or if theyare already in at least a 5 gallon pot, simply saw off som eof the roots and fill in the sides with potting soil.

Pruning
Prune your container roses the same time you prune your ground grown roses.

The three catagories for container roses are:

Floribundas
(cluster-flowered) were originally produced from hybrid teas and polyanthas

Miniature Roses
these dainty little roses are almost replicas of floribundas and hybrid teas, with both foliage and blossoms being proportionately smaller.

Patio roses
smaller than floribundas, but not as small their miniature relatives.


long letter but I hope it helps. god luck, below is a couple of links that will help you determine the best roses for your experience and garden area