How tall are carpet roses

You can grow Carpet Roses in USDA zones 5 through 10 with some precaution at the warm and cold extremes of their growing range. If you live in USDA zones 9 or 10, plant them in dappled sunlight or partial shade. If you live in USDA zones 5 or 6, you need to cover them with a protective 6- to 8-inch deep layer of leaves in winter.

If a plant is patented, it is technically illegal to reproduce it by cuttings or other asexual methods without permission from the patent holder. Knock Out roses lose their leaves in winter.

Since they are large, shrub roses, their nakedness is obvious in winter, so they are often planted among low, evergreen shrubs to mask their naked canes.

Flower Carpet roses bloom in full sun to partial sun at least 6 hours a day. However, using an easy-care plant like Flower Carpet on your bank can add loads of season-long colour with minimal work. Softening them with a border of Flower Carpet roses is an easy way to add colour and interest to the area.

Flower Carpet roses can be planted around a pond to keep little ones from wondering in, or in larger displays poolside. Flower Carpet roses make ideal container plants — either on their own or inter-planted with annuals. Need a bit of extra colour in certain spots during the season as blooms fade?

Grab a pair of garden shears to cut them back by a third any which way. This is the rose that needs no guessing, no worrying.

Really… no kidding. Here is a ground cover rose that performs. All this is why the Flower Carpet roses have received over twenty-five gold and International awards. Flower Carpet Mini Cherry has masses of cherry-sized cherry-red coloured flowers on a shorter bush, making it perfect for edging, hedging or just massed colour anywhere in the garden. Need downloadable images of Flower Carpet Roses?

Click here. Flower Carpet Roses Not all ground cover roses are created equal. Award Winning Plant. In part shade — two to three hours of sun per day — there are fewer flowers. The foliage is dense, green and glossy on a bush with a good, mounded shape. Plant virtually whenever: for massed plantings, two to three plants per square metre 3ft ; for borders space them 80cm 32" apart.