A rose is a rose is a rose...

Except that Gertrude Stein lived in Paris, not Chicago.

On one of my rare Facebook visits, a childhood friend asked me about overwintering her Parade Rose on a balcony. I had never heard of this rose, so I did a little net-surfing. It turns out the rose is really bred to be a cute centerpiece, not a long-term investment. That being said, a few people on-line said they did manage to make this rose last. For my friend's sake, I will say a few things that may help overwinter roses in general:
1.) Plant your rose in a container at least 18" by 18."
2.) Line the pot with insulation material (that pink, coiled styrafoam from Home Depot works).
3.) During the growing season, give it plenty of ventilation. But during the dormant season, bunch the rose pot up with your other plants close to the building wall in order to retain heat.
4.) Mulch the base of the rose with hardwood mulch.
5.) Pray.
6.) Look at it as a science experiment.
7.) If it doesn't make it, next year get a Knock Out shrub rose (they come in several colors now.)

I've pictured some of the original Knock Out. Above, see it in-context at a client's garden yesterday. Unlike most roses, Knock Out is not fussy or disease or pest attracting. It was bred in Milwaukee and blooms from June to frost. However, this year's swarm of Japanese beetles ate many plants they hadn't paid much attention to before. Image below tells you why we have so many of these shimmery green insects: everytime I photographed it this year, the beetle was (to mix a metaphor) making hay while the sun still shines.