Emerald Carpet Creeping Raspberry

It s tough and drought tolerant once established.

Emerald carpet creeping raspberry. Creeping raspberry adapts well to containers and tumbles easily over rock walls providing a spilling over effect. 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. Hardiness zone 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b. Bulbs or other perennials are able to pop up through the foliage to create interesting compositions.

The broad leathery dark green evergreen leaves of emerald carpet raspberry make a good ground cover for weed suppression and soil stabilization. They may turn raspberry red with the onset of cool fall nights. Grows in sun to part sun. Grows in sun or shade.

Butterfly attracting plants culinary plants drought tolerant plants groundcovers pollinator plants medicinal plants xeriscaping plants evergreen perennials cottage garden plants green. Evergreen groundcover dense low mat to about 12 inches 30 cm high creeping grows 30 cm yr. Emerald carpet raspberry makes a fine choice for the outdoor landscape but it is also well suited for use in outdoor pots and containers. Creeping raspberry spreads to form a dense carpet but unlike other ground covers such as english ivy will not climb trees or neighboring shrubs.

Creeping raspberry care contrary to its delicious counterparts creeping raspberry makes an excellent ground cover. Shoots shaggy pubescent with solitary small recurved prickles. Rubus pentalobus emerald carpet aka emerald carpet creeping raspberry. Emerald carpet forms a low dense evergreen groundcover bearing textured dark green leaves through the growing season.

Spring bulbs like daffodils can sprout through. Yellow orange berries are ripe in mid summer and taste good. To keep this plant contained you ll need to use some garden edging. A unique evergreen with dark green puckered leaves that turn burgundy red in fall and white spring blooms.

Fairly fast growing evergreen groundcover raspberry native to the mountains of taiwan. Leaves alternate simple broadly oval rounded 2 4 cm long and wide 3 5 lobes base deeply cordate margins undulate and sharply serrate deep green pubescent underneath. Moderate to moderately fast growing evergreen groundcover to 4 8 tall x 3 5 wide. Emerald carpet creeping raspberry rubus calcynoides.

Emerald carpet creeping raspberry. Works best in rock gardens where it creates a dense trailing weed free mat. Rounded they have 3 5 broad ruffled edged lobes and display felted whitish undersides. Grows 4 to 6 inches high by 18 to 24 inches wide.

Popular cultivars include golden quilt emerald carpet green carpet and formosan carpet. Because of its spreading habit of growth it is ideally suited for use as a spiller in the spiller thriller filler container combination. Plant it near the edges where it can spill gracefully over the pot.