No, you want to gradually expose them to sun, they have been grown in a greenhouse. If you have a shady or sheltered area out of direct sun, put them there for a couple of days, then you can expose them to direct sun gradually increasing the time over a week or preferably 10 days. Make sure to keep them watered, and if you see any leaf burning, take them back to the shaded area.

Thanks! I did find this information after digging around on the 'net for a few minutes...duh. It's just that on the websites they keep saying that they love full sun! It didn't make sense to me to just throw it out there to beg for its mercy because you can't even do that to cacti and succulents :-) I'll do a repot and acclimate it to the out of doors after it spends its blooms. I wish I had a yard where I could plant these, as it is I'm stuck with a container garden as I'd hate to have to dig them up after a year or so if I ever moved. Thanks for the advice Ms. Diane!

minibot

You're welcome, but you have to tell us what you ordered!!! ;-))

I ordered:

Jilly Jewel
Ralph Moore
Scentsational
Red Scentsational

They were having a fall special so I went a little nutso...I wanted to get fragrant and red and just something interesting I kinda just picked at random (shoulda ordered the micros and perhaps the black rose which drew me in the first place, but I sorta forgot about them when I was getting drawn in by the fragrant and red roses). I hope I'm successful with miniature roses because I've not had luck with them before, but my mom always does alright (she likes to hack at the poor plants just to see what they can take I think!!). Heck, I don't even know if these roses I ordered are really miniature or not! I was just tempted by that darned Parade rose at Home Depot and then started reading about them, and I couldn't resist! I wonder if the roses down the street (they look like a climbing tea rose) are considered miniature? They sure put on a spectacular show! The neighbor has trained the plant to grow up and around our stop sign. I'll try to post pics some day.

Minibot (whose name is funny since I'm in the Miniature Roses forum, but it just meant that I was a young botanist when I was a child ;-))