Yes the deer do love roses and it does not seem to matter if the roses are the popular knockout roses drift roses hybrid tea roses floribundas miniature roses or the wonderful david austin shrub roses.
Flower carpet rose deer resistant.
Deer love to eat roses.
Even roses with terrible thorns have susceptible new growth before the thorns have had time to harden.
That plus their good manners and low growing habit makes them just the ticket for a flowery softly scented tidy hedge around a pool.
Generally what people consider groundcover roses are just low growing shrub roses.
Flower carpet roses produce wave after wave of blooms for months.
Most rugosas are highly fragrant and come in all your standard rose colors.
The deer love them.
Flower carpet roses bloom in full sun to partial sun at least 6 hours a day.
There is also one bicolor known as moore s.
These low growing sprawling shrubs are actually not a class of their own like many other rose types.
Easy erosion control.
If you live in an area that is known to have deer close by think about protection early on.
Flower carpet roses are the heroes of roadside plantings laying ribbons of colour alongside avenues and filling round abouts and traffic circles.
Flower carpet amber along with pink supreme and scarlet belong to the collection of next generation flower carpet roses where refined breeding has produced improved heat humidity tolerance on top of its existing disease resistance.
For added security around swimming pools these roses create a lovely showy barrier at a time of year when the pool becomes the garden s hub.
As an extra bonus they re also self cleaning.
Groundcover roses are one of the newest trends in roses.
Its parents are a flower carpet rose and another of noack s earlier hybrids named after his wife r.
White light to dark pinks yellow and reds.
Colors of deer resistant roses.
Dramatic spikes of flowers in almost every color imaginable make snapdragons a stunning addition to a deer resistant garden.
Supposedly the new growth tastes best to the deer but it is more likely that the deer prefer it because of the softness and the increased amount of nutrients in new growth.
Werner noack of noack rosen a german rose breeder famous for his commitment to disease resistant hybrids.
As these shrubs send out new blooms the spent blossoms drop neatly to the ground.
This rose is the final product of a 35 year breeding program by dr.
They graciously replaced the geraniums that sprouted and then died twice.
The rose though a very sloppy graft is the only thing that lived.
Plantings on banks and slopes to control erosion can be as complex or simple as you d like.
But no matter what they are these plants excel at filling space with nonstop blooms.