and here's a picture of the climber

HI, Ziya! I had Rise n Shine and it did not winter for me. I have the regular Rainbows End and mine does not bloom a lot either but with a climber you sometimes have to give them a few years to mature before you get a good bloom on them.

Your wintering plan sounds fine. The thing you want them to do is go dormant and stay dormant so do not use that heating blanket. You don't want them to keep leafing out repeatedly. That will just use up all the stored energy the rose has before you can get it back out in the spring. You want them to stay dormant until spring really arrives for good. You don't need to keep them wet but just watered a little about once a month. Yes, the leaves should shrivel up but they may not drop off. I usually have to pull what's left off in the spring.

I'm here in zone 7, but I think I'm more in zone 8 because our winters are getting very mild. Anyway, my roses, ALL my roses, mini and all, keep their leaves all winter long, so I'm just gonna leave mine on the front porch or put them in the window in the unheated utility building and see how they do. Of course, the ones in the ground do great. Hope you have good luck.

Well, kindof a mixed bag. Black Jade and Rise'n'Shine did not survive the winter. Cl. Rainbow's End and the grocery store minis are thriving, even though I've been very mean to them this spring. They are all planted in the ground now, rather than containers. Once I get the mulch down I'll post some pics of the grocery store minis, I liked them so much I made them the main plants in my center bed! I wish the lavender ones had lived but I comforted myself by getting a gorgeous Ebb Tide, it smells SO GOOD!

With the winter we had all and all you didn't do too bad. I lost 63 roses this winter. All but 4 minis died, 3 in the ground and 1 potted one lived.

Looking forward to your pictures!