Formosa Carpet Ground Cover Raspberry

I live in zone 5.

Formosa carpet ground cover raspberry.

We get quite alot of snow this winter was down to 15 below zero. The formosa carpet raspberry can be found creeping in the grasslands and thickets of taiwan. Plants are evergreen in most climates but they can lose their leaves in severe winters. These rubus species are evergreen and ground covering spreading and making an excellent cover in sun partial or deep shade.

In the meantime i did some research and discovered. Lyons perfect for hot dry erodible slopes or a ditch where moisture fluctuates this groundcover thrives in difficult spots other plants can not tolerate. Formosa carpet raspberry hardy sweet juicy rubus calycinoides 4 pot. I contacted hirt s and requested to have the original order filled or if the plant was unavailable to receive a full refund.

In addition to its attractively textured evergreen foliage and low maintenance nature it also produces little edible yellow orange raspberries that are quite delicious. It spreads 12 24 outward per year on each cane like stem. White flowers with amber fruits in late spring. Easily grown in a good well drained loamy soil in sun or semi shade.

From taiwan this ground cover has delicious aggregate fruits that range. Rounded they have 3 5 broad ruffled edged lobes and display felted whitish undersides. The formosan carpet raspberry is one of the fastest spreading and toughest edible ground covers that we know of. Low maintenance and a great addition to our gardens.

Creeping raspberry produces white flowers in summer but these flowers can often get lost amidst the dense and rich foliage. 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. They all flower in summer and bear nice raspberry like fruits. Spring 2005 planted rubus emerald carpet in just one year this ground cover is rapidly filling areas that were targeted.

Groundcover raspberry rubus pentalobus emerald carpet. Groundcover raspberry rubus nepalensis 5 00. Anfisa kameneva eyeem getty images. At maximum height it can reach a foot tall but it often stays in a thick 6 mat along the ground.

Succeeds in deep shade. On apr 19 2006 rachele from revelstoke canada wrote. There is also a low growing raspberry formosa carpet that is evergreen and spreads to form a mat ground cover. Rubus hayata koidzumii commonly known as creeping raspberry is often listed incorrectly as rubus calycinoides or rubus pentalobus.

Therefore it s not very well suited to being a ground cover. They may turn raspberry red with the onset of cool fall nights.