Hello, all,

This is my first year with miniroses. I just purchased 7 beautiful minis from Noreast Miniroses. I called them to ask when I ought to plant them in my rose garden before I placed the order, and the woman told me that the ship date for my area is Feb. 28th. I thought that that was perfect, because I'm going to be gone from Mar 12-26 and my garden will be on my watering timer with semi-supervision from my husband.

However, when the instructions arrived, it said that you should plant outside in zone 7 from late April to late June--they'd roast!

So, who should I believe? The instructions that came in the box or my intuition and the woman from customer service? FYI, I'm in zone 7 (Lubbock, Texas) and all this week it ought to be in the 70s but frost is still a possibility. Add into this that if those little roses aren't planted while I'm gone for two weeks, they're goners--there's no way my DH will remember to water them daily (and that's a pain, so I wouldn't want to ask him to).

Help, anyone?

West Texas Rose