Two daughters want to grow roses in pots. None of us have experience.
What do we need to know? We've already been reading and asking, but I
hoped that we'd get some good advice here, too.

They've bought bareroot varieties 'Oklahoma' and 'CL Golden Showers'.

Some particular questions:

* What size pot? I've got different answers to this question already.

* Can we successfully add other plants to the rose pots, or would they
hinder the roses? And if we can, which other plants?

* Do we really need the specialty soil labelled for roses, or can
generic potting soil work?

* Anything else that we likely don't know.

Thank you!

Ted Shoemaker

Madison, Wisconsin, US

USDA zone 4/5
AHS heat zone 4/5
Sunset zone 43

"typical" last frost date: May 13