Shade	Full Sun, Partial Shade
Area	Exposed Windy Areas, Frost Pockets, Scotland & The North
Soil	Good, Well Drained, Alkaline/Chalky, Poor/Dry
Colour	Apricot/Orange Shades
Type	Pot Grown, Shrub Rose
Ornamental	Fragrant, Repeat Flowering
Flowering	Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov

Rosa Raymond Carver

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Rosa 'Raymond Carver' Shrub Rose. 4 Litre Pots.

A vigorous shrub rose with fully double, well-scented, warm orange-amber blooms all through the season. It has really lush, glossy mid-green foliage, ideal for hedging and the back of a border, and can be trained as a low climber.

Browse our other shrub roses, or all our rose varieties.

Features:

Type: Shrub
Colour: Orange
Flower shape: Double, quartered
Scent: Strong
Bushy to 120cm x 90cm
Repeats in flushes June-November
Disease resistance: Good

Growing Raymond Carver Roses

Good, well drained soil in a sheltered, sunny spot is ideal for this hard-working variety.

In Your Garden Design

The crinkled tissue paper like amber/orange double flowers are an attractive addition to any garden. Would work well in a ‘hot’ palette of orange, yellow and red flowers such as Anthemis tinctoria E.C. Buxton, or Anthemis Sauce Hollandaise, Cephalaria gigantea, Digitalis Parviflora, Smyrnium Perfoliatum, Penstemon ‘Garnet’, Monarda ‘Gardenview Scarlet’. Try our hot and spicy perennial collection for an instant colour mix.

Did You Know?

These were originally bred by Colin P. Horner (1933-2005) and introduced by Peter Beales Roses in 2002 under the rose registration code HORraycar.

Raymond Carver (1938-1988) was an American writer best known for writing short stories. He is venerated for his distinct and clear style and died young at the age of 50. This rose is equally distinct and has greater longevity in the author's name.

How to plant Modern Shrub Roses

You can order bareroot roses for delivery from November to March. Containerised plants are available year round.

Soak your roses' roots or pots for a little while before planting. This is an opportunity to prune the stems down to six to ten inches, and inspect the roots to trim off damaged ones.

Choose a spot with reasonable light: semi-shade will do, but full shade will not. Prepare the soil by breaking it up with a fork while removing roots, stones, etc.

On dry, sandy and chalky soil, dig a big hole, then backfill it with a soil mix improved with three quarters organic material, including compost and manure for fertility, and leafmould or our Rocket Gro soil improver for water retention.
On good garden soil, adding some organic material is beneficial, especially manure. Dig a shallow hole, deep enough to allow the graft/union to settle right at soil level, and wider than the roots.
On really heavy clay, which rose roots love, you do not need to dig: slit planting is good, and you can use organic material as a mulch on top.

Spread some Rootgrow mycorrhizal fungi around the bottom of the hole, where it will make contact with the roots.

Arrange a mound on the floor of the hole to set your rose's roots on, so they spread out, and the graft-union is slightly above soil level. Backfill the hole with the planting mix, firming it down as you go, at first with your hand to fix the rose in place, and then with your heel to firm it. Dust some bonemeal on the surface and water in thoroughly. In the process, the soil will settle down so that the graft is clear of the soil.

How to prepare and plant a bareroot rose Video.

Mulch well in spring, and keep well watered during dry periods for the first year. Deadhead repeating roses to encourage continuous flowering.

Newly planted roses shouldn't need much rose food, maybe a dash on poor dry soils. When they are settled in the second year onwards, feed them during the growing season with homemade compost teas and foraged sea weed, or some of our Neudorff rose food.

Mature shrub roses need gentle pruning compared to floribundas and hybrid teas. Prune to tidy the shape in winter. First remove the usual dead, diseased and badly positioned wood, ideally cutting out whole shoots back to a main stem, or outward facing bud. Then remove the wispiest stems, and some of the oldest wood from the centre.

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Delivery: Our standard delivery charges are:

Small box (orders containing only seedlings or rooted cuttings) = £7.20 (inc VAT) per order. Free delivery for orders over £60 (inc VAT)
Standard box (bareroot plants up to 1.2metres) = £11.40 (inc VAT) per order. Free delivery for orders over £60 (inc VAT)
Large box (pots up to and including 7.5 litres) = £15.00 (inc VAT) per order. Free delivery for orders over £100 (inc VAT)
Trees & hedging (bareroot plants and trees over 1.2 metres in height) = £19.80 (inc VAT) per order.
Orders delivered to Scotland and the Isle of Wight may incur a surcharge (calculated during checkout). This is applicable to ALL orders to these locations.
Pallets (for all orders of root balls, and large orders, a pallet price will be automatically applied at checkout) = £75.00 (inc VAT) per order.
If, for reasons of seasonality an order needs to be split, then we will charge for each delivery. If the whole order was eligible for free P&P then the second of the split orders will be delivered free of charge.

*Surcharges to the Highlands and Islands still apply.

Because couriers sometimes experience delays, we schedule delivery by week, not by day. Therefore, please plan your planting day for the weekend at the end of the delivery week or for the week following delivery, at the earliest.
We will email you the day before your plants are due to arrive.

Payment: We do not charge your card until we begin to prepare your order for packing.

Guarantee: If any plants die within a year, we will replace them. We only ask that you follow our planting & growing instructions and sent us clear photographs of the dead plants in situ, so we can help to make sure that the replacement plants succeed. You only pay for the delivery of the replacements.

Please note that our guarantee is void if there is a hosepipe ban in your area: your newly planted hedging must be watered in dry weather while it is establishing. The best way to water is very thoroughly every few days: at least once a week in summer if there is no heavy rain.

Our nursery has been supplying container grown and bareroot hedging plants to gardeners, farmers and town planners since 1949. Our website started in 2003, so we do understand the concerns that you may have about buying hedging plants online. If any of your plants are damaged when they arrive or if you are otherwise not satisfied with your order after you inspect it, please repackage it and contact us. We will give you a refund or send replacements and send a courier to come and collect the unwanted plants.

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