You don't say when your frost date is or how long it will be before you are able to plant but if the roses are still dormant just give them some water and leave them alone. Put them in a cold, dark corner of the garage until planting time. As long as they stay dormant they should be OK for a few weeks. If they are already leafing out you can keep them inside in a very sunny but cool spot for a while but they will need extra humidity around them and will need to go outside as soon as possible.

Hope your new roses all do great!

It's always best to get your baby own-roots repotted promptly or put directly in the ground. They are very vulnerable in their tiny pots.

Most nurseries will let you request a shipment date appropriate to your area so you can receive those baby own-roots when the weather has settled.

If still dormant, the roses are completely frost proof (frost is not the same as a hard freeze!!). Waiting for last frost is recommended for temperature sensitive plants like annuals or tender perennials, not woody shrubs like a rose.

In either case- dormant or not - I would pot them up.

Thank you all! I’ll be potting them today for sure, and they’re grown in the north thankfully as I’m in Idaho, I purchased these six from northland rosarium. Though i have a few coming from the south soon (antique rose emporium) thanks again for your help..I did request a shipment date for later than this but the David Austin’s were threatening to go out of dormancy so were shipped ahead of time but I believe I’m safe to plant those bare roots right now.

Bare roots are fine to plant now. Potted own roots are better delivered in mid-April, but that's neither here or there now. If your plants have leaves they are not dormant. Leave them in the small pots and in a protected place as seil stated until after last frost (April 10th for me in central NJ).

Skip the soaking, it is not beneficial. In fact if anything, it is detrimental. For one thing if you leave a plant sitting in water nutrients in the plant start leaching out into the water.

I soak mine.

Had to leave them for a week while I was on vacation and they did the best for me.

Steven

I soak. Works very well for grafted roses and bare root own root from DA. No soaking for potted bands or tiny roses received damp.