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Ground Cover Rose pinning branches down

Ivy2Ivy2 Posts: 73
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Was watching this video

https://youtu.be/T0aBmWomrbg?si=TD-veh3G-_S5i0gF

After 6.30 he starts pinning the branches to the soil to train them. 

I can see this will keep it doing what the name suggests it should rather than growing a meter or so high.

Anyone done this?  Does it get better results?

I have three carpet rose. Tried it with one but can see you need a lot of space to do this. Is it ok for them to cut through other plants by doing this? Like a geranium Rosanna. Do they have to go out in spider leg formation or can you bend one if the branches around curved border for example?

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I've never done it with a carpet rose but I have done it with Sceptr'd Isle, a DA shrub rose that grown whippy enough stems to peg down.   You do need more space and, if done well, the only ground cover you need underneath is some spring bulbs that will take the sun and rain before the stem sbush up with foliage and flowers.

    You definiitely get more flowers by pegging the stems but I wouldn't have thought it was necessary with a ground cover carpet rose which is bred to grow low and cover the ground.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I owuld just prune the carpet roses low.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Ah, but my Flower Carpet roses don't seem to have read the instructions @Obelixx, one's now 6-7ft tall and the other white one is 4ft high!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Peg them then, till they get the idea @Lizzie27.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
      :D
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I need to keep mine low so they don't block the plants behind them. I'm keeping them to about 50cm.
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