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Flower Carpet /Tesselaar Plants

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One of the earliest easy-care roses on the market, Flower Carpet roses have won over 25 gold and international rose awards. Bred for exceptional disease resistance, easy care and great drought tolerance, they can be grown in full sun or partial shade. A well-grown mature plant can provide over 1,000 blossoms per season, on top of rich glossy green foliage—and no fancy pruning or spraying required. Here are five outstanding varieties:

1. Flower Carpet Amber is one of the three new “Next Generation” Flower Carpet roses. Fifteen years extra breeding provides improved heat and humidity tolerance and disease resistance, making Flower Carpet Amber ideal for some of the more challenging rose-growing climates in the U.S. Several times throughout the season, Amber produces masses of beautiful amber blooms that are tinged with tones of soft pink and peach. It’s a wonderful addition to any garden bed or border.

2. The first of the “Next Generation” Flower Carpet roses, Pink Supreme is a real winner. The prestigious All-Deutsche Rose Trials, notable for its rigorous 3-year performance test conducted with no chemical spraying, found Pink Supreme to be extremely disease-resistant and awarded it the coveted ADR-Award. This variety provides masses of rich lipstick-pink blooms from late spring through late fall. This truly easy-care groundcover rose is simple to grow and easy to maintain.
 

3. “Next Generation” Flower Carpet Scarlet has also won top marks for disease resistance and performance in the ADR, the All-Deutschland Rose Trials, considered the world’s toughest test of rose performance. A true easy-care groundcover rose, it is simple to grow and easy to maintain for both home gardeners and professional landscapers. It requires no spraying and only a once-a-year cut back. This winner produces non-stop brilliant blooms from late spring through late fall.
 

4. Flower Carpet White is considered by many to be the most disease-resistant white rose available. One of the earlier Flower Carpets to bloom, it has a pleasant fragrance and a notable ability to retain beautiful, snowy white petals for the entire life of the flowers, even after exposure to rain. As with all Flower Carpet roses, White is simple to grow and easy to maintain, requiring no spraying or fancy pruning.
 

5. Flower Carpet Coral is a top-performing, disease-resistant groundcover rose that blooms in profusion from late spring through fall. Coral has glossy green leaves and brilliant petals that don’t fade in the sun or in the cold; on the contrary, they darken over time to a deep reddish-coral that looks bright and fresh for the life of the flower. At 32-inches high and 40-inches wide, Coral is ideal for beds and borders.

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6. Hardy and easy to grow, Sunblaze roses will flower from spring until fall. Amber Sunblaze Rosa Meiludoca and Sweet Sunblaze Rosa Meitonje are two members of this collection of miniature roses that has been selected for outstanding potted plant production and garden performance. All varieties in the Sunblaze collection have dense, dark green foliage with 2 to 3-inch large, Grandiflora blooms. There are 12 varieties in the collection, each of which can grow to 18-inches high and 24-inches wide. They are hardy from zones 5-9.

7. The Kolorscape collection will help inspire confidence in the inexperienced gardener! Pictured here are Flamingo Kolorscape KORhopiko and Milano Kolorscape KORjuwko, two examples of how these compact, mounded shrubs have stunning flower power. They also have a generous bloom cycle that will continue until the first hard frost. The four varieties in this collection are self-cleaning and very heat-tolerant throughout the U.S. They grow to 36-42 inches high and 24-30 inches wide and are hardy from zones 5-9.

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8. Sunshine Daydream ‘Meikanaro’ PPAF is a breakthrough rose, as it is the first traditional garden rose to win an AARS award under no-spray trialing conditions. This rose displays cheery, full, yellow flowers that will re-bloom throughout the season. It will require minimum care in the residential landscape.
 

9. Thrive ‘Sprothrive’ PPAF is a new vibrant-red shrub rose and a strong, healthy descendant of The Knock Out Rose. Although not as disease-resistant as the Knock Out Rose, Thrive blooms all season with true-red flowers on a more uniform and compact plant.
 

10. Sweet Drift ‘Meiswetdom’ PP#21612 has the most traditional flower form of all the roses in the Drift series. The clear-pink flowers are comparatively large to the size of the plant. Sweet Drift blooms all season and is exceptionally disease resistant. It is perfectly suited for use along walkways, or at the front of borders.

11.Pink Lemonade is a hybrid Hulthemia floribunda. It has a melon flower with a red ring inside of the petal. This compact shrub grows up to 3 feet tall and wide.

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12. Loretta Lynn Van Lear, named for the famous country singer Loretta Lynn, bears frilly peach flowers on the type of plant that every gardener loves. The plant habit is ideal for containers or garden planting, borders and beds. Foliage is clean, rich healthy green. The dense compact habit combined with double frilly roses make this rose much loved by everyone. It flowers early and produces blooms all summer long.
 

13. Lady Ashe is a very disease-resistant and fragrant large flowered climber that bears large apricot blooms touched with salmon all season long. The blooms are set off nicely by the dark, glossy green foliage. Her most striking feature is her powerful fragrance. Lady Ashe grows to a nice, tidy height for a climber and is not one to want to take over the garden.

14. Southern Peach is an outstanding example of what a mini-flora can be. This is a strong growing rose with superb glossy foliage. The blooms are born on firm, long stems and in clusters, making it suitable as a small cutting rose. It flowers in massive waves, giving the gardener dozens of long-stem roses with each wave of bloom. Color is warm, pleasing golden amber. It is an even tidy grower, perfect for people looking for a compact, easy-care type of plant.
 

15. Blooms on Paula Smart Smart and Sassy are a brilliant satin red with warm golden reverse. The foliage is stunning, deep maroon when new, turning to a highly polished dark green. The bush produces superb long-stem type roses on a tidy upright growth plant. It’s the perfect rose for gardeners who want a typical long-stem rose but on a smaller-growing plant. It’s long-lasting as a cut rose and is ideal for people looking for a rose that “looks like a rose.”
 

16. Flamenco’s cherry-red blooms perch above the foliage in clusters all season long. The blooms have the look of heavily petaled, old-fashioned roses with a light, sweet fragrance. Left to its own it will grow to 4-feet high x 5-feet wide, but it can easily be kept trimmed throughout the season. This is the ideal rose for a border and definitely a candidate for mass planting in commercial settings and landscaping, as it’s self cleaning. The disease resistance is outstanding.