Low Carpet Roses

Its parents are a flower carpet rose and another of noack s earlier hybrids named after his wife r.

Low carpet roses. It s a shrub rose reaching. As an extra bonus they re also self cleaning. Flower carpet roses produce wave after wave of blooms for months. Carpet roses are a low growing ground cover trailing or rockery type rose.

The ground cover or carpet roses label was created by those marketing the roses for sale but actually are quite fitting labels for them. These roses also tend to be extremely disease resistant and low. Notoriously low maintenance groundcover roses set out a carpet of colorful blooms all summer long with little need for attention. These low growing sprawling shrubs are actually not a class of their own like many other rose types.

Let s learn more about growing ground cover roses. Flower carpet pink a fairly low growing ground cover rose reaching heights around 24 32 inches 60 80 cm with bright pink blooms you ll find this hardy plant suitable for growing in zones 5 10. Groundcover roses are one of the newest trends in roses. Flower carpet roses also often referred to as the carpet rose are the world s number one ground cover rose.

Noak started patenting his new roses with flower carpet red patented in 1995. Flower carpet roses were developed by german breeder werner noack in 1990. But no matter what they are these plants excel at filling space with nonstop blooms. Groundcover roses offer rock solid performance and a low spreading habit that makes them perfect for covering sloping or rocky areas.

Practically maintenance free yet extremely floriferous and vigorous plants can produce as many 2000 blooms per bush each season. Roald dahl this new english rose was named in roald dahl s honor and produces gorgeous peach colored blooms. Soften a stone wall flower carpet comes in a wide variety of colours from softer amber appleblossom pink splash coral and white to bolder tones of scarlet pink and red. That plus their good manners and low growing habit makes them just the ticket for a flowery softly scented tidy hedge around a pool.

They re extraordinarily low maintenance and have exceptional disease resistance. Generally what people consider groundcover roses are just low growing shrub roses. After 25 years his roses proved so superior they have liberated the rose in america making it easy to grow for expert and novice alike. What are ground cover roses.

Once established some varieties can produce an astonishing display of up to 2 000 flowers from spring through to autumn. Low maintenance drought tolerant flower carpet roses are ideal for areas that are often hard to reach with hoses or sprinkler systems. Werner believed disease resistant roses would free gardeners from the plagues that afflict this favored flower. They are not only invaluable in the landscape but also a great spiller option.

As these shrubs send out new blooms the spent blossoms drop neatly to the ground.