Balou / Cherry Flower Carpet Patio Rose Bushes

Balou Cherry Flower Carpet Rose Bushes. 3 Litre Pots.

Balou is covered in clusters of small, cherry red flowers pretty much continuously from June to November. The dark green foliage is semi-glossy. Spreading and bushy to 50cm tall by up to 1m wide.

The disease resistant Flower Carpet series is a hit with town councils and urban gardeners for its low maintenance requirements, and high tolerance of both unpleasant roadside conditions and rough pruning. 

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Features:

• Colour: Red.
• Shape: Double
• Scent: Light
• Flowering: Repeating June-November
• Type: Shrub, Ground cover
• Very low maintenance
• Multi award-winning
• Size: 50cm x 1m wide

Growing Cherry Flower Carpet Roses

Typically used in mass planting schemes, they will need watering in dry weather for their first two years. By their third summer, they will have put down deep roots and will be quite drought tolerant. 

You do not need to be careful when pruning them. Go easy on your new plants while they establish for a year or two, and then slash them down to 20cm tall in early spring with shears or a hedge trimmer. This will ensure the best flower display, but especially in full sun, it is not essential, and your plants will still bloom well if you don't bother to cut them back every year.

These roses are pretty good at dropping their spent flowers, so there is little need to dead headed them.

Did You Know? 

The hugely successful Flower Carpet Collection is the work of Reinhard Noack at Noack-Rosen. Cherry was released in 2013, registration code NOA20054, and is also sold as Balou.
In 2012, it won an ADR-Sorte award at the ADR General German Rose Novelty Trials. In 2013 it won the Silver Medal at the Baden-Baden Rose Trials, and in 2018 it won a Gold Certificate at The Hague Rose Trials