GardenQuilts said:
Another thing that I wished that I knew when starting to grow roses - miniature roses have tiny leaves and flowers. Many of them are also tiny plants. Some, however, can get really tall but still have tiny leaves and flowers.
While technically true, I feel you may have gone a bit far in the opposite direction. The leaves and flowers are smaller yes but the range is significant. I mean I have a moon river (or Gra's Blue...have both, very similar just slightly different colour and very different scent) next to Friesia (aka sun sprite) the difference in size is not that significant, blooms about 3/4 the size, plant height close to a meter, leaves by no means tiny.
On the other hand if I compared it to Rise N Shine then the blooms and leaves are around half the size of Friesia.
There are really tiny minatures out there but they aren't the norm. Most of my rose garden is minatures (and a few hybrid tea's and floribunda) and most are close to 2 foot tall with blooms around half the size of floribunda....but often many more blooms happening at the same time.
