Emerald Carpet Creeping Raspberry

Evergreen groundcover dense low mat to about 12 inches 30 cm high creeping grows 30 cm yr.

Emerald carpet creeping raspberry.

Emerald carpet raspberry makes a fine choice for the outdoor landscape but it is also well suited for use in outdoor pots and containers. It s tough and drought tolerant once established. Creeping raspberry adapts well to containers and tumbles easily over rock walls providing a spilling over effect. Spring bulbs like daffodils can sprout through.

To keep this plant contained you ll need to use some garden edging. Grows in sun to part sun. The broad leathery dark green evergreen leaves of emerald carpet raspberry make a good ground cover for weed suppression and soil stabilization. Metal concrete or brick edging that goes at least 4.

Bulbs or other perennials are able to pop up through the foliage to create interesting compositions. Yellow orange berries are ripe in mid summer and taste good. Shoots shaggy pubescent with solitary small recurved prickles. Works best in rock gardens where it creates a dense trailing weed free mat.

Creeping raspberry care contrary to its delicious counterparts creeping raspberry makes an excellent ground cover. Grows 4 to 6 inches high by 18 to 24 inches wide. 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. 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.

Emerald carpet creeping raspberry rubus calcynoides. Rounded they have 3 5 broad ruffled edged lobes and display felted whitish undersides. Fairly fast growing evergreen groundcover raspberry native to the mountains of taiwan. Emerald carpet forms a low dense evergreen groundcover bearing textured dark green leaves through the growing season.

Rubus pentalobus emerald carpet aka emerald carpet creeping raspberry. Emerald carpet creeping raspberry. A unique evergreen with dark green puckered leaves that turn burgundy red in fall and white spring blooms. Because of its spreading habit of growth it is ideally suited for use as a spiller in the spiller thriller filler container combination.

Hardiness zone 6a 6b 7a 7b 8a 8b 9a 9b. Moderate to moderately fast growing evergreen groundcover to 4 8 tall x 3 5 wide. Creeping raspberry spreads to form a dense carpet but unlike other ground covers such as english ivy will not climb trees or neighboring shrubs. Flower color is and blooms in summer.

Popular cultivars include golden quilt emerald carpet green carpet and formosan carpet. They may turn raspberry red with the onset of cool fall nights. Grows in sun or shade.