Flower Carpet Roses Pruning

In this horticultural how to dave of growing wisdom will tell you how to see to it that your flower carpet roses have a healthy summer and fall.

Flower carpet roses pruning.

Carpet roses also known as groundcover roses feature vigorous canes that grow nearly prostrate and only have slight upward growth or mounding. Rose pruning ensures that plants grow vigorously and flower well each year. Winter is rose pruning time and the flower carpet or other ground cover type roses are some of the easiest to prune. Like other types of roses carpet roses require pruning to maintain a tidy form.

Some cultivars of carpet rose have an everblooming habit while others bloom only in spring. Even though flower carpet roses aren t as susceptible to disease as are other rose species you ll still need to care for them to ensure that they stay healthy. These roses fall into rhs pruning group 19. 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.

They can be trimmed throughout the year to maintain shape and size and then once a year in late winter cut the bush back to rejuvenate and reinvigorate the plant.