Apricot Drift® Groundcover Rose

People across the country love the easy-care nature and lovely looks of the hardy Apricot Drift® Groundcover Rose (Rosa 'Meimirrot'). This true groundcover Rose is absolutely covered in large sprays of wonderful frilly, double apricot blooms from spring through fall. Low-growing and wide-spreading, these Groundcover Drift® Roses are sure to be the finishing touch to your landscape!

The lush flowers have 30 - 35 petals per bloom, much like you would find in the pouty, old-fashioned English Roses. Apricot Drift blooms offer a depth of color that changes with the light and the age of the flowers. Take time to study these pretty plants, and you'll see apricot, peach, and pink tones on the same plant. It's a magnificent display when paired with all the pollinators that arrive to also admire the blooms!

The disease-resistant foliage stays clean and attractive. The flowers continue to develop flush after flush. The flowers attract hummingbirds, bees, and other beneficial insects. You'll relish the double apricot-colored flowers as they bloom for you all through the growing season. Turn heads with this amazing little hardy shrub Rose.

Rose breeders have outdone themselves this time when they came up with a Groundcover series. Apricot Drift displays a season-long show of color. It is just as tough and disease-resistant as other Groundcover Roses in the Drift® series. Our expert growers give these plants exquisite care. Professional garden designers across the country trust the quality of Nature Hills landscape-grade plant materials, and you should too.

Planting and Application:

Apricot Drift Rose features a low, spreading habit, which makes it a beautiful workhorse for edging garden paths and walkways. It stays compact and never gets leggy with long, bare stems. In fact, these are incredible facer shrubs that add frilly skirting around larger shrubs and trees that are getting a bit leggy themselves! Add Apricot Drift as a facer shrub to taller berry-producing Viburnums or gorgeous flowering shrubs like Oleander.

Repeat them along the front of your shrub border as an easy-care replacement for bedding plants. The deep, dark green leaves are the perfect backdrop for those phenomenal apricots and pink flowers. We recommend including some foliage, along with the blooms for your cut flower arrangements.

Grow several of these plants to ensure you have plenty of cut material for beautiful cut flower arrangements. Gift yourself the charm of indoor arrangements with these flower power bloom factories. Go over the top by including an Apricot Drift® Rose Tree as a crowning jewel to your garden, underplanted with Apricot Drift® groundcover Roses for a spectacle like nothing else!

Apricot Drift Rose is perfect for small gardens, hillsides, perennial beds and even awkward areas. The lovely blooms brighten up borders, fill in empty spaces, and spread delicately around your favorite established plants.

Let these charming (but rugged!) shrubs easily establish your borders, along a winding path, or use them to fill empty spaces in your landscape. Or pop them in large containers on your patio or on either side of your entryway. They take the heat like a champ! Include them in Rock Gardens and along slopes.

As you can imagine, with a name like Drift®, these small Roses make incredible mass plantings. Plant them 2 - 3 feet apart on center, measuring from the center of one to the center of the next. Allow them to grow into a cohesive whole for an incredible display.

• Gorgeous Double Apricot Blooms - Light, Clean Fragrance
• Attracts Hummingbirds and Butterflies
• Excellent Repeat Bloomer All Growing Season Long
• Useful Groundcover Growth Habit Never Gets Leggy
• Dark Green Foliage Stays Low & Spreads Wide
• Dwarf Plant Fits in Small Gardens
• Edging Along Paths & Walkways, Facer Shrubs & Containers

#ProPlantTips for Care:

People all across the country have wonderful success with these pretty Drift® series because they are decidedly modern Rose bushes that have a great deal of disease resistance bred into them. Cold and heat tolerant throughout USDA zones 4 to 11, there's not much your growing zone can throw at these hardy shrubs and make them even flinch!

Roses always do best in full sun with well-drained soil. Give these sun-lovers at least 6 hours of sunlight a day. Roses need a moderate amount of water on a regular basis. However, they won't tolerate wet feet, so please ensure they have well-drained soil. If you need to improve your drainage, mound up additional soil 18 inches above your native soil line. Plant directly in that mound.

Add a nice layer of Mulch over the root system to keep it cool and moist. Mulch helps stop mud from splashing up on your pretty plants and can prevent soil-borne diseases. Of course, mulch also looks terrific and visually ties the whole garden bed together.

Wait to prune your Roses until after winter is over and the weather starts to warm up again. Apricot Drift® Roses are not grafted. Instead, they are grown on their own root, so all growth that emerges in spring is true to form. In early spring, selectively prune back last year's growth down to 12 inches or a bit less. Remove any broken, crossing, or winter-damaged branches.

Enjoy these small Roses with a low, spreading growth habit. They are so well suited for small gardens or along paths and walkways. Give them a slow-release fertilizer in early spring and mid-summer to support producing all those pretty blooms.

Read all you need about Rose pruning Roses and about winterizing your Roses, and un-wintering Roses in spring in our #ProPlantTips Garden Blog!

• Full Sun & Appreciates Morning Sun
• Moderate Consistent Moisture
• Well-Drained Organically Enriched Soil
• Loves Mulch & Good Air Circulation
• Prune Late Winter/Early Spring
• Great Disease Resistant Modern Rose

Fantastic flowers, foliage, fragrance and form. Add disease resistance and a wonderful repeating bloom - what is not to like? Order enough Apricot Drift® Rose from Nature Hills to complete your planting today. Get Groundcover Roses for your landscape today!