Rosa Vesuvia - groundcover shrub rose

The Decorosier Vesuvia Rose Bush, classified in the category of shrub roses, is an excellent rose bush capable of creating a magnificent ground cover due to its low, very dense, and well-covering habit. Strong and floriferous, it ensures an exceptional, almost permanent, decoration, requires very little maintenance, and offers a long uninterrupted flowering from May until the frost, in the form of single flowers of a deep red, enhanced with a small yellow centre. It is highly appreciated by urban landscapers and never sick, it is also well suited for informal flower beds in our gardens with simple perennials or bushes with colourful foliage.

The 'Vesuvia' rose (noare), also known as 'Velvet Flower Carpet', 'Alcantara', 'Red Velvet', was obtained in 1998 by the German rose breeder Reinhard Noack and is classified as a modern, shrub and landscape rose. Its clustered flowers come from the polyantha rose, an old hybrid derived from Rosa multiflora and Rosa chinensis. The plant forms a very dense bush 70 to 80 cm (28 to 32in) high, forming a slightly spreading dome about 90 cm (35in) to 1 m (3ft) wide, depending on the growing conditions. It is very floriferous with an abundance of single flowers with a diameter of 5 cm (2in) from May to October, a fairly deep velvety red with a golden yellow stamen centre. They have no fragrance. They are gathered in small clusters. Its healthy semi-evergreen foliage is composed of small, shiny dark green leaves that cover thorny stems. This variety tolerates heat well.

The Vesuvia rose can be used in flower beds, borders, large spaces and slopes, or as low hedges. It adapts to all soils that are not too wet and all climates, allowing it to be grown from the north to the south. It has a dense growth habit that works well on a slope, where it will cover the ground. When planted en masse, it will also border pathways and edge flower beds. It can be grown with perennial geraniums (Geranium Blue Cloud, Anne Folkard, Nimbus, Orion), bellflowers (lactiflora, rapunculoides), catmints, lavenders, snapdragons, foxgloves, or Stachys. Left to grow freely, it will form a bush with a light, flowery, and cloudy shape, with a very natural appearance in front of a flower bed composed of flowering bushes such as abelias, Kolwitzia, mock oranges, elderberries, or shrubby wormwoods.