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'Blanche Neige' rose Reviews & Comments
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Junie Burns has replied privately to my question attached to her photo. She says: “ you asked me about the rose Snow Carpet, if I had pruned it at all this winter. No I have never pruned it in the two years it has been growing except a few long runners that were invading other roses.”
Thank you Junie. I note the two years.
I have to report that I really took note of someone else’s advice on not to prune this rose (1989 reference) and after 19 years, ‘Snow Carpet’ looked pretty awful. So in mid autumn I have sheared the canes down to about three or four inches on a couple of plants. Other younger plants remain unpruned so it will be interesting to see the difference next spring.
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if you plant this one, you'll need to mulch very heavily underneath it (as with any groundcover rose). Its prickles make it no fun to weed, and it roots down (layers itself). I'm going to transfer mine to a tall tub, hoping it won't grow through the drainage holes.
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What thorns? It says "thornless (or almost)" in its description. Mine must be something different... a thorny sport maybe? ;)
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That's two Australians saying it's prickly. We need a comment from NZ, where it was bred, to indicate whether we have the right rose. I'm still removing regrowths of it from my rockery.
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I also grow 'Temple Bells', one of its parents... super super prickly medusa canes... exactly like Rosa wichurana.
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My Snow Carpet' is prickly too. I have had a brief look for other references which say prickles or no and can't find anything. What I have found is a 1999 reference which says it is once flowering. I seem to remember that it flowers a fair bit in summer, but cannot guarantee that. There are no flowers on my bushes right now, two months into our autumn.
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Mine is covered in buds with a few scattered flowers today (8th April, 2012 (autumn), Tasmania, Australia). Forms OP hips. Flowers in autumn take on a creamy yellow colour.
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2 1/2 years later; yes it did send roots through the drainage holes of the tub. And beyond.
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A further 6 years on, it is still crawling through the rockery, in a hard place to reach.
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Will set openlly pollinated hips and is disease free in my garden. I grow it in a hanging pot and let the canes hang down.
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Initial post
10 OCT 13 by
 goncmg
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The 1982 ARS annual Proof of Pudding review on this one is so hysterically awful I think I jumped a little when it pulled up here on HMF. Looks like it does a LOT better in Austrailia! From page 197 of the annual, here is the review:
"The reporters seemed to go into shock and 'green' carpet seemed a more suitable name. The plant did creep well but it took over a year or two to produce a few blooms and then that was it until the following year which would not qualify this for GD (*garden display*) or for hanging basket or for the carpet. NY's ratings are both 3.0's. Two reporters in PNW had much better luck with it but could not lift the ratings above 5.5/4.5. 19 reporters, 32 plants.
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