Botanical Name: Common Names:
Rosa Flower Carpet Apple Blossom Flower Carpet Rose, Ground Cover Rose, Groundcover Rose,
Native: Foliage Type:
No Deciduous
Plant Type: Plant Habit:
Groundcovers, Hedging / Screening, Roses, Shrubs Dense, Rounded
Description:
An attractive glossy green foliaged shrub with a low, dense and compact habit. Once established, Flower Carpet® Appleblossom produces up to 2,000 soft pastel pink blooms from late Spring right until late Autumn. These roses show natural disease-resistance and are a genuine easy-care groundcover rose - consistently one of the most disease-resistant roses ever bred - ideal for both home gardeners and professional landscapers. During the long flowering season, this rose will self-clean so that there's no need for fancy pruning or deadheading. Use in flowerbeds, mass plantings, large containers and as tree roses. A perfect commercial landscaping plant for low-maintenance colour. Grows to 60-80cm high and 100cm wide.
Mature Height: Mature Width:
60cm-1m 60cm-1m
Position: Soil Type:
Full Sun Any, Well Drained
Landscape Use(s)
Balcony / Roof, Borders / Shrubbery, Courtyard, Cut Flower, Foliage Feature / Colour, Formal Garden, Fragrant Garden, Groundcover, Hedging / Screening, Low Water Garden, Mass Planting, Rockery, Verge, Container / Pot
Pests & Diseases: Aphids, Generally trouble free, Thrips
Cultural Notes:
Plant Care
Annual slow release fertiliser, Keep moist during dry periods, Mulch well
Family Name: Origin:
Rosaceae Europe
Characteristics
Foliage Colour: Green
Flower Colour: Orange, Pink
Flower Fragrant: No
Flowering Season: Autumn, Spring, Summer
Fruit: Yes
Requirements Tolerances
Growth Rate: Moderate
Maintenance Level: Low
Water Usage: Low
Drought: High
Frost: High
Wind: High