Flower Carpet Roses

Carpet Roses

Flower Carpet Roses, or Carpet Roses, which they are sometimes called, are free-flowering, easy care roses that offers many useful garden planting solutions. They are rather low spreading shrubs that vary in height from 2-3 feet and 3-4 feet wide.

These roses are very low maintenance roses, also called landsape roses, because they lend themselves to mass plantings with no deadheading required for repeatflowering.

Once established they become quite drought resistant, if they have been deep watered earlier.

'Flower Carpet' roses in a garden

The flowers are only slightly fragrant, but they appear in masses of pretty pink clusters over a very long season. Small rounded hips follow after the end of flowering in the fall. The foilage is medium green and glossy, and very attractive.

The trailing canes covered with blossoms, are lovely when allowed to spill over retaining walls or container plantings.

These carpet roses are usually disease resistant, except some mildew and blackspot have been reported, but only in warm and humid climates. Zones 4-9, height 2-3 feet, 3-4 feet wide sprea

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