Sweet Drift Groundcover Rose – 3 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-11  Find Your Zone

Growth Habit / Form:  Dense, Mounding

Growth Rate:  Fast

Sun Needs:  Full Sun or Mostly Sun, Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade

Water Needs:  Average

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Being dwarfs, Drift Roses are ideal for use as a specimen in small garden spaces or solo or combined with other plants in pots, planters and other containers. In larger landscape spaces plant them in groupings, mass plantings, on embankments or as a border along walks and pathways for stunning floral displays and vibrant splashes of season-long color. The Drift Roses are ones that we don’t hesitate to recommend for use in home foundation plantings.    

Suggested Spacing:  2 to 3 feet apart for groupings and solid borders;  5 feet or more apart for space between plants

Drift Roses are exceptionally easy to grow in average, well-drained soils with medium moisture in full sun to part shade. As with all other roses, the Drift roses require morning sun to dry the morning dew from their leaves, which prevents powdery mildew from forming on the leaves. Some afternoon shade or filtered sun is fine. We suggest 6 hours of direct sunlight per day for best flowering. Drift Roses do not require pruning, however, they do benefit from it. We cut our Drift Roses back to about 4 to 6 inches above the ground before new growth begins to emerge in late winter or very early spring. Plants will quickly flush out and start blooming with the arrival of spring temperatures. Deadheading spent flowers is not necessary however will encourage more new buds and flowers.