Carpet Roses Care

However using an easy care plant like flower carpet on your bank can add loads of season long colour with minimal work.

Carpet roses care.

Enter flower carpet rose often referred to as a groundcover rose. The ground cover or carpet roses label was created by those marketing them for sale but are quite fitting labels for them. Some cultivars of carpet rose have an everblooming habit while others bloom only in spring. Easy erosion control.

Ground cover rose bushes are fairly new and are actually in the official classification of shrub roses. Carpet roses also known as groundcover roses feature vigorous canes that grow nearly prostrate and only have slight upward growth or mounding. Flower carpet roses bloom in full sun to partial sun at least 6 hours a day. Like other types of roses carpet roses require pruning to maintain a tidy form.

Beautiful in containers or in mass plantings in the landscape. The blossoms are fragrant a first for the flower carpet series of easy care groundcover roses. Flower carpet roses have a tiered root system smaller roots by the surface to get any surface water plus deeper more established roots that supply moisture in drier conditions. Learn more in this article.

Plantings on banks and slopes to control erosion can be as complex or simple as you d like. A profusion of soft red rosebuds open to lovely semi double peachy amber blooms that fade to a seashell pink as they age.