Yes, it should be planted outdoors, it is a mini rose like others that you would order from Rosemania.com, etc. It won't survive indoors, roses are not indoor plants, no matter what the tag says.

You'll want to harden it off, meaning provide gradual exposure to full sunlight over a week or two, or keep it in dappled sunlight, then you can plant it in the ground.

There are probably 4 - 6 plants in that pot. If you are very careful, you can gently rinse the potting mix off of the roots of each of the plants, and repot them separately. then harden them off. you can also let them grow up a bit in the individual pots before planting in the ground. They may or may not be disease resistant, and the plant size may be large (over 3' tall) or small, but they usually make very good bedding plants.

They grow these to market as house plants and gifts but if you keep it in the house I can guarantee it will die. I have a hard enough time just keeping them alive from Valentine's Day, when I get them as gifts, until the beginning of April when I can finally get them outside. In zone 6 I'd say get them in the ground as soon as possible so that they can get established well before winter. Splitting them is up to you. I've done it but usually I only get about half of them to survive the shock. Leaving them together will give you a bigger fuller bush anyway. They may or may not do much this summer but look out next spring. With some minimal winter protection (mound them up with dirt or leaves) they should really take off for you next year!

Thanks for the quick responses! I will be planting it next week. We got a bad rainstorm today so I better wait until the ground dries a bit. One other question about mulch..It is better to use straw or the wood chip mulch for roses?

"Better" is relative, both are good. I use cedar chips. Just don't put the material directly on the canes, you want to leave a ring around where the mulch stops and the rose starts. We typically don't have to cover roses here.

There are excellent Consulting Rosarians in SE PA, send me an e-mail. They are very generour with their time and in showing their gardens.

I had a beautiful orange parade rose I planted in my yard. It took off and had these amazing blooms that were huge. I had to yank it this year, it had some kind of virus and I didn't want to deal with it.

@pelican~do you know what type of virus it had?

If it was Rose Mosaic Virus (RMV) you didn't need to yank it. It is not contagious (it only spreads through propagation) and most roses will live, grow and bloom well for a very long time with RMV with only normal rose care. If it was Rose Rosette Disease (RRD) then you did the right thing.

I have a parade mini. It is very double yellow with red edges. Lovely miniature that has been consistently blooming its head off since late spring. It has absolutely no fragrance. I have kept it outdoors right from the beginning. The only issue I have with this rose is that it is highly susceptible to powdery mildew!

Naturalchick27... I think it had black spot. We don't usually get blackspot here, but we had such a strange winter last year, a lot of my roses got these black spots and powdery mildew that don't usually appear. The parade was the only one that had it when it grew leaves this spring.

Black spot is a fungal disease, not a virus. It is curable and controllable with fungicides and would only kill the rose in extreme circumstances.