Rosa Star Profusion - patio or groundcover rose

Rosa Star Profusion is a fantastic ground-cover rose with continuous flowering from summer to autumn. This compact and dense bush will quickly fill empty spaces with small red and white wild roses with a golden heart, above dense and very healthy foliage. Undemanding, exuberant and vigorous, it is indispensable in the garden, in borders, in flower beds or in a small hedge.

Rosa Star Profusion, obtained in 1997 by the British hybridizer Colin P. Horner, is classified as a modern, patio, shrub or groundcover rose. Its clustered flowers come from the polyantha rose, an old hybrid derived from Rosa multiflora and Rosa chinensis. The plant is a very dense bush 60 cm (24in) tall, forming a spread and trailing dome of about 1 m (3ft) wide (sometimes up to 90 cm (35in) to 1 m (3ft) tall and up to 300 cm (118in) wide). It is very floriferous and produces lots of single flowers with 4 to 7 petals, in open cups, measuring 3 to 4 cm (1 to 2in) in diameter, vividly edged in fuchsia red on a white background, around a heart of fully developed golden yellow stamens. The reverse of the petals is yellow. The red gradually changes to pink and the white to cream, creating a multicoloured effect on the bush. The flowers are grouped in slightly scented clusters. Its deciduous foliage is rarely diseased and is composed of very small, bright green leaves that cover long thorny stems.

The 'Star Profusion' rose can be used in flower beds, borders, large spaces, or low hedges. It adapts to all soils that are not too wet and all climates, which allows it to be grown everywhere. It has a beautiful density and covers the ground more effectively than most other ground-cover roses. It works well on a slope or in a large rockery. Planted en masse, it can border paths and highlight flower beds. For example, it can be planted with grasses or perennial geraniums (Geranium Blue Cloud, Anne Folkard, Nimbus, Orion), bellflowers (lactiflora, rapunculoides), catmints, snapdragons, foxgloves or Stachys. Left to grow freely, it will form a bush with a blurred, flowery and cloudy silhouette, with a very natural appearance in front of a flower bed composed of abelias, Kolkwitzia, mock oranges, elderberries or Forsythia, for example.