Texture color and form are all important in the aesthetics of companion planting.
What goes well with red carpet roses.
Water in well with a liquid seaweed fertilizer to promote good root growth.
Beautiful in containers or in mass plantings in the landscape.
A profusion of soft red rosebuds open to lovely semi double peachy amber blooms that fade to a seashell pink as they age.
The blossoms are fragrant a first for the flower carpet series of easy care groundcover roses.
Once established some varieties can produce an astonishing display of up to 2 000 flowers from spring through to autumn.
It s a perfect choice for growing around the base of roses.
Flower carpet roses also often referred to as the carpet rose are the world s number one ground cover rose.
Roses need friends or companion plants around them for various reasons including pest and disease control longer season of interest and aesthetics.
Plants with tall spires complement the wide cup shaped flowers of roses while perennials and shrubs with pale green silver or purple leaves accentuate the sumptuous rose blossoms.
Below are some basic rules to follow when pairing your favorite roses with other plants.
Mass this heat and humidity tolerant fuss free low growing shrub in the landscape on a gentle slopes or as groundcover.
Trim plants back in spring before new growth starts at the same time you prune roses.
Plant it with red or deep orange roses for an eye catching combination.
Winner of world s top honor for disease resistant roses more black spot and mildew resistant than the original flower carpet roses.
Nepeta six hills giant can be quite vigorous so if you re short on space go for nepeta racemosa walker s low.
Plants that look good with roses.
Count on baby s breath as a filler in perennial gardens.
The foliage often starts out reddish and develops into either bright green or yellow.
Planting flower carpet roses.
Growing roses by themselves is an open invitation to the pests and diseases that favor roses.
Nepetas form a carpet of blue and look especially good with pink crimson red and even yellow roses.
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Flower carpet red groundcover rose.
Spirea shrubs are almost maintenance free and they look good all season.
Whether you go with a pink or white flowering spirea its mounding habit will tame the wildness of any rose bush.
They attract many pollinators especially bees and hoverflies.
Each bush will cover around 8m dig in some well rotted compost before planting space your roses and then plant to the same depth as they were in the pot.