Carpet Rose Bushes After Winter

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

Carpet rose bushes after winter.

Flower carpet roses produce wave after wave of blooms for months. After pruning your flower carpet roses pull away any old dead leaves and mulch to get rid of any soil fungal infestations. Give them a good feeding of controlled release fertiliser or something like espoma s rose food and that s all you ll need to do to get them started for another season of blooms. As these shrubs send out new blooms the spent blossoms drop neatly to the ground.

That plus their good manners and low growing habit makes them just the ticket for a flowery softly scented tidy hedge around a pool. As an extra bonus they re also self cleaning. Flower carpet roses also often referred to as the carpet rose are the world s number one ground cover rose. Shear off or cut back the carpet rose in late fall after growth has stopped or in early spring before growth resumes.

Mounding as winter protection for roses. Practically maintenance free yet extremely floriferous and vigorous plants can produce as many 2000 blooms per bush each season. However carpet rose pruning does not need to be as exact and methodical as the pruning of other types of roses. For care of roses in winter this is also the time to mound up around the grafted rose bushes with garden soil and mulch rose collars filled with mulch or whatever your favorite mounding medium is to protect the rose bush in cold weather i mound up around my own root roses too just for good measure but some folks do not.

Like other types of roses carpet roses require pruning to maintain a tidy form.