Magic Carpet Rose Pruning

You can simply use pruners or even hedge clippers which ever is easier for you.

Magic carpet rose pruning.

Beds and borders cottage informal flower arranging ground cover hedging screens woodland. 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. Like other types of roses carpet roses require pruning to maintain a tidy form. 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.

Department of agriculture zones 4 to 8 is a summer bloomer that needs pruning in early spring. After the last blooms expire shear off the tips of the stems just below the spent flowers. Rosa magic carpet rose magic carpet will reach a height of 0 5m and a spread of 1 5m after 2 5 years. However carpet rose pruning does not need to be as exact and methodical as the pruning of other types of roses.

Magic carpet spirea does not require pruning after its blooming period but pruning at that time helps maintain a neat appearance in the vigorous grower. Cut back as much as one third of each stem s length if the plant appears unkempt or overgrown. Some species of spirea require earlier pruning but the magic carpet cultivar hardy from u s. Grows best in moderately fertile moist but well drained soil in an open sunny site but is tolerant of poorer soils and some shade.