Apricot Drift® Groundcover Rose
Rosa 'Meimirrot'
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Specifications
| Plant Characteristics | Disease resistant, Flowering, Cold hardy, Fast-growing |
|---|---|
| Hardiness Zone | 5a to 11b |
| Sunlight | Full sun |
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| Width | |
| Watering Needs | Moderate |
| Preferred Soil | Clay, Loamy |
| Growth Rate | Moderate |
| Growth Habit | Climbing, Spreading, Trailing, Upright |
| Blooms In | Spring, Summer, Fall |
| Flower Color | Pink, Yellow |
| Foliage Color | Green |
| Pet Safety | Toxic to pets |
| Suitable Space | Outdoors |
| Plant Name | Rose |
| Botanical Name | |
| Species | |
| Cultivar | |
| Class | Magnoliopsida, Rosales |
| Does Not Ship To | AK, HI, ID, MT, PR, UT |
Description
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!
Apricot Drift Groundcover Rose makes a thoughtful Mother's Day gift. Browse our Mother's Day flower collection for more spring blooming gift ideas.
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Planting & Care
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Great packaging on the delivery. 3 of the 6 came very healthy and are growing well. 3 were extremely dry and I am hoping in time they will recover. Been about 3 weeks now and it’s been work to nurse them into growing some new leaves. Overall though I would buy from the nursery again!
Such a pretty color. Looks nice on patio where it was placed in a larger pot.Arived healthy and on time.
Apricot Drift does have a really good color, especially in a container where you can get up close to it. Glad it arrived in good shape and settled right into its spot on the patio. With regular deadheading through the season it should keep the blooms coming strong. Thanks for sharing, Mary!
The bushes arrived very small. Two of the Five I planted have bloomed. One was apricot and the other one is red. All five were suppose to be apricot. I reached out to customer service and received a reply that they were very busy but would get back to me. It has been over 1 week and I still have not heard back. I have no idea what colors the other three will be.
Didn’t come up. Very disappointed.
These arrived bone dry. I planted them in containers immediately with good soil. 2 of the 3 I'm sure won't make it. All the leaves dropped and now I just have sticks. They're still green, but turning brown by the day. Expensive roses. I will request a refund.
Very satisfied with the purchase.Delivered fast and in good shape.
Fast delivery and good condition on arrival are exactly what you want when ordering plants online, so glad this one checked both boxes, Carol. The Apricot Drift is a tough little rose that tends to settle in quickly, so keep an eye out for those first blooms. Thanks for the feedback.
Already blooming. Really healthy and strong
A rose that arrives already in bloom is always a good sign. Apricot Drift is a tough little plant, and once it gets settled in, it tends to keep those blooms coming in waves all season. Thanks for sharing, Linda, and enjoy the color!
Received during the summer. They were packed well and looked beautiful when I opened them up. A few short weeks after being planted they have blooms galore and have fluffy leaves spreading out everywhere. Was worried they would struggle due to my poor sandy soil and hot Florida sun, but they seem to be thriving. Great purchase!
Hi Kelsey, Thank you so much for leaving us a lovely review! We are thrilled to hear your Apricot Drift Roses are already blooming and spreading so beautifully. Here's a tip to keep them thriving: since sandy soil drains quickly, your roses will benefit from a layer of organic mulch to help retain moisture and add nutrients as it breaks down. Also, Drift Roses are pretty low maintenance, but a light feeding in early spring and again after their first big flush of blooms will keep those flowers coming strong through the season. We're so glad they're doing well for you - enjoy those gorgeous blooms! - Nature Hills Customer Support
Excellent condition
The roses are well packaged, delivered on time and of very high quality!
I would prefer buying a bigger size and spend the additional money. It's just very slow growing. I guess that's just me. I had some of these many years ago and it only took three years to reach the size it's supposed to, so we'll see. I may have bought one from another seller last year and it just died. I don't think they have a chance in the ground when they're sold small.
I have ordered a number of roses online and I have never received one in such beautiful condition. The greenery is perfect and luscious and the plant is covered with blooms and buds. Absolutely gorgeous!!
I would highly recommend. The Rose arrived quickly, about 4 days before it's scheduled delivery date. The plant was in excellent condition and had several very fragrant blooms on it.
Drift rose "Apricot" arrived in great condition and already has a few buds. I would definitely order again.
Packaging was well done. The leaves had good color and the plants had buds when they arrived. The color of the blooms are exactly what I was looking for. The spent blooms seems to hold on longer than I would like. But I am happy with my choice.
Arrived green and well-potted, as advertised, in a one-gallon pot. It is loaded with buds & will be gorgeous in about a week. It’s only been in the ground about 2 weeks!
Healthy plant and delivered quickly and in great shape!
Came well packaged with beautiful foliage & buds very good condition. As I ordered these in September I Hope they make it through the winter. Can't wait to see them as they grow.
This little rose arrived quickly & in great shape…is already growing & blooming…up a storm!!!
I sent this to my sister for her bday because she loves roses! I didn’t imagine it would look that great but she sent me a pic of it and it had 3 big roses fully opened! She planted in a pot and within a month it was twice the height!! I’m getting me one!
Quick shipping, I received a live and vibrant plant. Hardly any dead leaves. A couple of the flowers were dropping petals. But thats not an issue there were already new buds and a couple opened the same day I put it outside. I love the smell these little roses produce! Very full bush with green foliage and healthy looking buds. I recommend as I did not know what the item would look like since I never ordered a live plant offline. I am hoping to order again and hope to have the same positive experience.
I’m very impressed with this rose! It was packaged well, and it arrived very quickly and beautifully intact. The plant itself is healthy and happy, and I can’t wait to see it flourish now that it’s planted. I would definitely recommend!
Gave as a gift and recipient was extremely pleased. Nice, full plant.
Can't wait for the weather to warm up so I can get them in the ground
The plant was ready tp plant and very desirable.
These arrived in individual boxes (I bought eight of two different colors). One box was slightly damaged by the carrier but I found they were packaged very secure. I expected dormant plants but, while they weren't in bloom, I found that they were green and dry, probably for shipping ease. Make sure you water them upon arrival. They are now in the ground and look great.
Good shipper...box was a little smashed but rose was ok..
Good seller...i just bought another one ...double pink
I love roses, so I was very excited to get my roses. However, it came with many molds, but after planting it, I pruned it, sprayed it with neem oil twice a week, and watered the rose with rising plant food. It came well packaged.
Beautiful rose bush and the smell is beautiful.
Plant was none the worse for wear, considering it was boxed and went through the mail. It recovered thrived quickly after planting.
Product arrived earlier than promised - thank you. Great price & quick shipping. Couldn't ask for better packaging. This is a beautiful rose that has resist many, if not all, diseases that are typical with roses. Of the hundreds of roses I've planted over the years, this has to be one of the best genus of ground cover roses.
