Emerald Carpet Creeping Raspberry

Popular cultivars include golden quilt emerald carpet green carpet and formosan carpet.

Emerald carpet creeping raspberry.

They may turn raspberry red with the onset of cool fall nights. Emerald carpet raspberry makes a fine choice for the outdoor landscape but it is also well suited for use in outdoor pots and containers. Butterfly attracting plants culinary plants drought tolerant plants groundcovers pollinator plants medicinal plants xeriscaping plants evergreen perennials cottage garden plants green. Creeping raspberry care contrary to its delicious counterparts creeping raspberry makes an excellent ground cover.

Hardiness zone 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b. Grows in sun or shade. Shoots shaggy pubescent with solitary small recurved prickles. Rounded they have 3 5 broad ruffled edged lobes and display felted whitish undersides.

Grows in sun to part sun. 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. To keep this plant contained you ll need to use some garden edging. Moderate to moderately fast growing evergreen groundcover to 4 8 tall x 3 5 wide.

Yellow orange berries are ripe in mid summer and taste good. Grows 4 to 6 inches high by 18 to 24 inches wide. Creeping raspberry adapts well to containers and tumbles easily over rock walls providing a spilling over effect. Plant it near the edges where it can spill gracefully over the pot.

Rubus pentalobus emerald carpet aka emerald carpet creeping raspberry. 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. Because of its spreading habit of growth it is ideally suited for use as a spiller in the spiller thriller filler container combination. This durable non invasive variety forms a dense spreading mat of rough textured emerald green leaves that exhibit an attractive burgundy tinge.

Flower color is and blooms in summer. Fairly fast growing evergreen groundcover raspberry native to the mountains of taiwan. Works best in rock gardens where it creates a dense trailing weed free mat. Metal concrete or brick edging that goes at least 4.

It s tough and drought tolerant once established. Emerald carpet creeping raspberry rubus calcynoides. A unique evergreen with dark green puckered leaves that turn burgundy red in fall and white spring blooms. Spring bulbs like daffodils can sprout through.

Emerald carpet forms a low dense evergreen groundcover bearing textured dark green leaves through the growing season. 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.