Easy, Elegant Shrub Roses
Roses, roses, and more roses…. Imagine sprays and drifts of beautiful shrub roses blooming in your garden, landscape, or planters this summer with little effort! Let this be the year you make beautiful shrub roses part of your landscape. Go ahead, you really can have it all when it comes to shrub roses with their carefree habit and continual bloom. Shrub roses are better than ever, thanks to the brilliant work of rose hybridizers in recent years. And what makes the Knock-Out®, Drift®, and Flower Carpet® roses better? For starters, you’ll enjoy longer seasons of bloom, with many flowering from mid-May through frost.
Knock-Out, Drift, and Flower Carpet roses are considered by many to be low maintenance roses. Imagine no more diseased leaves to detract from the beauty of your garden. And there’s no need to ‘deadhead’ old blooms, unless you really want to. Plus, you’ll enjoy their beautiful blossoms for months outdoors or indoors as cut flowers.
Drift roses provide beautiful sprays of long season color in the garden. This low-growing, groundcover rose checks all the boxes – lots of seasonal color, an array of flower colors to choose from, easy-to-grow, and little maintenance required. This self-cleaning rose does all the work, but if you must, deadheading is an option.
Flower Carpet roses are prized for their vigorous, spreading habit and continual wash of flowers. Useful in borders and planters, they are available in a wide array of colors, heights, and scents. These improved shrub roses, completely hardy on Long Island, are an absolute ‘must’ for all gardens. A big plus – no need for constant spraying and deadheading.
Knock Out Roses, true to their name for their beautiful flowers, add months of carefree color and enjoyment in the garden – in beds and planters! Worth repeating and a timesaving benefit – there’s no need to deadhead old, faded flowers. There’s a newcomer to the Knock Out family – Petite Knock Out. This petite rose has a huge presence when planted in containers, or landscape beds and borders. Glossy deep green foliage and intense red flowers – that do not fade in the sun – make this a welcomed addition to the Knock Out family.
A special group of shrub roses adored for their incredible, fragrant blooms – David Austin English roses remain a perennial customer favorite at Heritage Farm and Garden. We are honored to be the only purveyor of these incredible roses in Nassau County. The late David Austin was considered by some to be the Father of English roses. David’s family continue to hybridize and grow his namesake roses in Shropshire, England. David Austin English roses are adored for their romantic, fragrant, and incredible flowers and deep green leaves. Dreamy clusters of full flowers in reds, pinks, whites, yellows, or oranges – are showstoppers wherever they are planted. A little extra TLC goes a long way – deadhead spent blooms to encourage additional flowering during the growing season.
Helpful hints to keep roses happy in the garden:
• Provide at least 6 – 8 hours of full sun each day
• Use a soaker hose to water. Avoid overhead watering that can encourage leaf diseases.
• Fertilize regularly according to label directions
• Cut back canes in late winter or early spring when new growth begins to emerge.
