Choose a location that can be viewed from different vantage points, i.e. the kitchen window, a deck or patio. Prepare a garden bed for roses like you would any other flower bed. Remove the sod, shaking the dirt back into the bed as best you can. Add topsoil or a rich humus to the newly formed bed to bring it back up to grade. Plant roses in the spring after the frost has left the ground.
Roses are usually packaged bare root rather than potted.
Check the root system for broken or girdling roots, prune if necessary. Space hybrid teas 24 inches apart. Shrub roses need to be spaced up to six feet apart. Dig a hole about 15 inches deep, leaving a small mound or cone of soil in the center to drape the roots over. Bury the bud union about 1-2 inches below the surface of the soil.