12 easy ways to landscape using roses

All varieties of Flower Carpet roses have glossy green leaves and bloom for months at a time. The original ‘eco rose”, Flower Carpet requires no spraying, chemicals or fancy pruning to keep it performing.  A simple cut-back each spring, a good mulching, watering as needed and some fertiliser is all it takes to keep it blooming all summer long!   Flower Carpet roses bloom in full sun to partial sun (at least 6 hours a day).

Easy Erosion Control

Plantings on banks and slopes to control erosion can be as complex or simple as you’d like.  However, using an easy-care plant like Flower Carpet on your bank can add loads of season-long colour with minimal work.  Once they’re planted and well mulched, they require very little additional care other than a light feeding with controlled release fertiliser and an easy cut-back with hedge sheers, pruners or even a weed whacker in the early spring.

Soften a walkway or patio

Walkway and patios – whether they’re stone, gravel or brick – can often seem a bit cold and uninviting.  Softening them with a border of Flower Carpet roses is an easy way to add colour and interest to the area.

Add protection and privacy around a pool or pond

Flower Carpet roses can be planted around a pond to keep little ones from wondering in, or in larger displays poolside.

Create a colourful border hedge

Depending on the variety and your location/growing zone, Flower Carpet roses can serve as a colourful hedge growing between 2 -4 feet tall.

Containers for use in the garden or patio

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?  Fill a large (24-36”) container about half full with lightweight materials like old packing peanuts, leftover bird netting or other porous materials and the top half with a good quality soil and plants. Then move the container to bare spots that appear in your garden beds for instant colour!

Create a welcoming driveway border

Flower Carpet roses can withstand not only high heat conditions that are common along hot black-top driveways, but also winter road salt spray and snow plow damage. Low-maintenance, drought tolerant Flower Carpet roses are ideal for areas that are often hard to reach with hoses or sprinkler systems.

Soften a Stone Wall

Flower Carpet roses come in a wide variety of colours – from softer Amber, Appleblossom, Pink Splash, Coral and White to bolder tones of Scarlet, Pink, and Red.  Regardless of your colour choice, you’ll find a variety to grace any stone wall with its nonstop blossoms and shiny green foliage.

Boost Your Curb Appeal

With their non-stop blooms, Flower Carpet roses are perfect for boosting your curb appeal and welcoming friends and neighbours with very little time or effort. Because they tolerate both high radiant heat from roadways and the salt used in northern American climates during the winter, Flower Carpet roses are ideal as a curbside plant.

Create a colourful “first tier” in the front of a perennial border or bed

With their long bloom time, Flower Carpet roses are ideal in perennials beds, especially beds that lose colour once other perennials end their bloom cycles.

Looking for an easy-care damage-free foundation plant?

Flower Carpet roses are ideal for foundation planting because although their roots are strong, unlike many plants used for foundation plantings, they aren’t strong or large enough to damage foundation walls.

Create an attractive backdrop for a special feature

Looking for an easy care plant to use near an outdoor dining area, a garden bench or a special corner of the garden?

Fabulous Fences

Depending on the variety and your location, Flower Carpet roses can be left uncut to grow along or over fences, creating an old-fashioned cottage garden look.

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