Find out how masses of the beautiful and hardy Flower Carpet Rose can transform even heavily trafficked roadside areas into traffic-stopping, jaw-dropping gardens.

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Hi. I’m Dave Epstein and it is flower carpet at the rescue here at Growing Wisdom. We’re planting Pink Supreme here today. This situation is really ideal for the flower carpet family of roses, close to a road, an entry way to a driveway and it’s a big area that needs to be covered. They could have used something like Junipers or some other plant, but by using the flower carpet, they’re going to have color all season long. Nearly 300 roses are planted in this area. What a great mass planting! Speaking of mass plantings, we’re going to head over to a pool and do a smaller mass planting there. Only this time, we’re going to use Ember. This pool has a neat decking where they’ve actually put some glass in the concrete and we’re going to try to pick up on that Ember color using the flower carpet roses. Now, we’re on a side of a pool that has a little bit of a slope, and slopes are great areas to use mass planting of the flower carpet rose. This is going to provide color from the time they open up the pool until the time they close it. And because this is an environmental rose, they’re not going to have to prune. No chemicals, just basically going to flower from mid spring all the way until later on in the fall. Mass planting of one type of plant really is an effective to get a pop of color, and we’re going to really get that nice pop with all this Ember. We could’ve done a mix of all the different colors, things like white, coral, apple blossom, scarlet, red or we could have just done a mass planting with different color. You could put up to 13 of these in a 10 x 10 square foot area and just really let them knit together or you could spread them out a little bit, and eventually overtime, they’re going to grow together as they grow between three to four feet wide. Remember, whenever you’re planting the flower carpet roses, you want to break up the roots at the bottom, tease them a little bit, that helps to get better contact with the soil and it comes with that great pack of plant food which you mix them with the hold before you plant it. So this is an easy design, one plant, one solution, it’s the flower carpet Ember rose to the rescue here. We’ve created color, a little bit of erosion control, low maintenance. I’d say this is an easy job well done. Come back every week for all of our tips and some helps here at Growing Wisdom.