Blushing Drift Rose
Rosa 'Meifranjin'
Drift Roses
Ground Cover Rose
$50.00
A low growing blanket of deep green foliage punctuated with multiple pale pink blooms that resembles a splashing fountain of color, requiring little pampering; perfect to create a definitive border or as a dazzling ground cover
Features and Growing Tips
Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.
Landscape Qualities
Blushing Drift Rose is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a ground-hugging habit of growth. Its average texture blends into the landscape | but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.
Ornamental Qualities
Blushing Drift Rose is draped in stunning shell pink flowers with yellow centers at the ends of the branches from early summer to mid fall. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It has dark green deciduous foliage. The glossy oval compound leaves do not develop any appreciable fall color. The fruits are showy red hips displayed in late fall.
Planting and Growing
Blushing Drift Rose will grow to be about 18 inches tall at maturity | with a spread of 3 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. It grows at a fast rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years.
This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions | but will not tolerate standing water. To help this plant achieve its best flowering performance | periodically apply a flower-boosting fertilizer from early spring through into the active growing season. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.
Plant Facts
Prefers full sun
Keep moisture level average to moist
Mature Size 18"Hx3'W
Cutflower Favorite
Flowers are shell pink
Flowers from early summer to mid fall
Attracts bees
Zone 4b
Likes well drained soil