Formosa Carpet Ground Cover Raspberry

Plants are evergreen in most climates but they can lose their leaves in severe winters.

Formosa carpet ground cover raspberry.

They all flower in summer and bear nice raspberry like fruits. I contacted hirt s and requested to have the original order filled or if the plant was unavailable to receive a full refund. Formosa carpet raspberry hardy sweet juicy rubus calycinoides 4 pot. The formosan carpet raspberry is one of the fastest spreading and toughest edible ground covers that we know of.

White flowers with amber fruits in late spring. They may turn raspberry red with the onset of cool fall nights. Not many ground covers are this willing to adjust. These rubus species are evergreen and ground covering spreading and making an excellent cover in sun partial or deep shade.

The creeping raspberry rubus pentalobus isn t a prostrate version of the common raspberry plant but is a low growing ground cover with deep green semi evergreen leaves and bright white flowers. Easily grown in a good well drained loamy soil in sun or semi shade. Spring 2005 planted rubus emerald carpet in just one year this ground cover is rapidly filling areas that were targeted. There is also a low growing raspberry formosa carpet that is evergreen and spreads to form a mat ground cover.

Rubus calycinoides creeping raspberry is an evergreen groundcover forming a dense carpet adorned with long spreading branches clothed in lustrous emerald green thickly textured leaves. We get quite alot of snow this winter was down to 15 below zero. The formosa carpet raspberry can be found creeping in the grasslands and thickets of taiwan. Rounded they have 3 5 broad ruffled edged lobes and display felted whitish undersides.

Groundcover raspberry rubus pentalobus emerald carpet. Lyons perfect for hot dry erodible slopes or a ditch where moisture fluctuates this groundcover thrives in difficult spots other plants can not tolerate. From taiwan this ground cover has delicious aggregate fruits that range. Creeping raspberry produces white flowers in summer but these flowers can often get lost amidst the dense and rich foliage.

At maximum height it can reach a foot tall but it often stays in a thick 6 mat along the ground. It spreads 12 24 outward per year on each cane like stem. The fruit is different from the raspberries we re used to but it is tasty. Low maintenance and a great addition to our gardens.

Anfisa kameneva eyeem getty images. Groundcover raspberry rubus nepalensis 5 00. On apr 19 2006 rachele from revelstoke canada wrote. In the meantime i did some research and discovered.

I live in zone 5. Succeeds in deep shade.