Miniature Roses

Full bloom

Amongst many flower plants, miniature rose has a special place in my heart.

Miniature roses are true roses, bred to stay small in size. They have smaller flowers than standard rose bushes, but they come in a variety of types and colors just like the standard rose plants. 

"Miniature roses are perfectly scaled, smaller versions of larger roses, with all the colors, forms, substance, and often, fragrance of full-sized roses. Like other types of roses, each variety of miniature rose has different characteristics, with plant size ranging between 6 inches and 4 feet or more and plant shapes that include bushy, compact, climbing, and cascading."  ~ source : Gardening All-in-One for Dummies

I have a special pot consists of 3 miniature rose plants (pink, orange and yellow). I bought it from a local nursery. It was a tiny pot placed at the corner of the shop.  It din't attract much attention as it wasn't flower that time. I spotted her and took her home without knowing there are actually 3 plants in it (as it look rather a tiny plant). 

I gave it to my daughter as a gift. We both take care of the plant with due diligence and much of love. My daughter would water the plant and took her out for morning sun everyday. 

Not until one fine day, we saw rose buds started coming out. It was pink buds, then we found yellow buds, what not, there was orange buds too! Me and my daughter were overly happy. 

The roses remained planted in small pot for 1.5 years! One fine day I decided to give my miniature roses a new life. hahaha.... I decided to transfer them to ground instead of planting in pot. I managed to clear a small corner for them, a spot where I think will be suitable for roses as it gets direct morning till noon sunlight. I water the roses everyday and perform fertilisation once a week.

After two weeks of transfer, new buds are forming. There were not 3, not 5, there were about 10 buds! 

My humble Miniature Roses is about the size of 12x12  inches

Full bloomed miniature rose is about 1.2x1.2 inches

To give you a better picture for the comparative sizes, the one on the right is the miniature rose, the one in the middle is the common normal size rose. Yah!!!! That's my miniature...how cute it is, I know :)