Rosa carolina (Carolina Rose) Bird friendly Inexpensive and easy to spread

Inexpensive and easy to spread

sweetly fragrant white flowers open in midsummer

It is also a host plant for the Giant Leopard Moth

It appreciates a summer mulch which helps keep the root zone cool

manageable clump is desired

Rosa carolina (Carolina Rose) Bird friendly Inexpensive and easy to spreadAlso known as Pasture Rose or Low Rose. Carolina Rose is a low growing, thicket forming rose with fragrant pink flowers in late spring and early summer. It produces red rose hips in fall that persist through winter, providing food for wildlife. It is adaptable to a range of soils, including clay, and is drought tolerant once established. Carolina Rose spreads by suckers to form dense colonies and works well as a natural hedge or wildlife planting. AT