Garden Plant: Sweet Drift Rose
Sweet Drift Rose
Product Description: Sweet Drift Rose
Stunning Pink Blooms Sweet Drift Groundcover Rose
- Fragrant Blooms
- Lavish Clusters of Clear Pink Double Flowers Spring through Fall
- 30 to 35 Petals per Bloom
- Green Glossy Foliage
- Low Maintenance Charmer
- Compact Habit Works in Containers and Small Gardens
- Easy-Care Groundcover Rose
- Disease Resistance and Winter Hardy
- Nectar Source for Butterflies and Helpful Pollinators
- Widely Adaptable All Across the United States
Decorate your life with a wonderfully versatile Rose! Sweet Drift Rose (\’Rosa \’Meiswetdom’) produces amazing clusters of fully double, clear-pink flowers.
The profuse flower display lasts and lasts from spring until the first frost. Although small, each abundant bloom features 30 – 35 petals apiece.
You’ll be forgiven if you fall head over heels with these pretty plants. But don’t worry, your love affair won’t keep you up at night.
Drift Roses are a cross between full-size groundcover roses and miniatures. These tough, winter hardy, repeat bloomers are a mix of the best of both parents. You’ll definitely appreciate their compact size and disease resistance.
Once they are established in a sunny spot in your landscape, You’ll have months of blooms for very little effort. There is nothing like a Sweet Drift Rose to soften the look of your garden edges and polish the look of your plantings.
Sweet Drift grows into a bushy, reblooming groundcover rose that has toughness and disease resistance. You’ll love their compact size and repeat blooming nature all growing season long.
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How to Use Sweet Drift Groundcover Rose in the Landscape
These fun and flirty blooms grow abundantly on a dense Rose bush. The blooms are perfectly set off with the lustrous, dark green foliage.
You’ll need to pick up several vases, as they’ll be plenty of flower clusters to cut for indoor decorations. Try tiny bud vases for individual blooms or add entire sprays of blooms in larger arrangements.
This shade of pink partners so well with other flowering shrubs and perennials. You’ll be pleased how well they suit so many different garden styles, as well.
Gentrify the look of a naturalized Prairie Garden. Try Sweet Drift as a groundcover, mass planting, on a slope or hillside, as a border, or as a container plant. Or, pop them into a Cottage Garden here and there to boost the flower power all season long.
Use a long row of them as an easy-care foundation planting. Try Sweet Drift as a groundcover, mass planting, on a slope or hillside, as a border, or as a container plant.
Have fun with the interplay between streamlined modern “hardscape” and the lush look of the Sweet Drift Rose. They’ll decorate your pool deck without a care in the world. Use several along the sunny side of mature evergreen trees and shrubs for an instant decorator touch.
Don’t forget to include these hard-working nectar sources at the corners of your Victory Garden! They’ll support local pollinators from spring through fall.
To fill a wide, open area, plant them 24 inches apart on center. Measure from the center of one to the center of the next.
Pro Plant Tips for Care
No matter where you are in the country, chances are excellent You’ll have terrific success with these pretty Drift Roses. They take extreme cold, humidity, and even scorching high temps.
Plant in full sun locations where they will receive at least 6 hours of sunlight a day. Give them well-drained soil that won’t retain water for long.
Use a container, or mound up additional soil 18 inches above your native soil line if you suffer from poor drainage. Plant your Rose directly in that mound.
It’s best to supply a medium amount of water on a regular basis. Add a thick layer of mulch over the root system to keep it cool and moist.
Prune in early spring by simply cutting back last year’s growth to 12 inches. Remove any broken, crossing, or winter damaged branches at that time. Wear gloves, as those thorns aren’t kidding around.
Apply an organic, slow-release fertilizer in early spring and again in mid-summer. Follow the instructions on the label, and You’ll give your plant support to keep the pretty blooms coming for you.
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