Sun Rose Flowering Groundcover
Your landscape is most likely not flat with perfect soil throughout your entire lawn. Most of us have a problem area or two in our landscape that are difficult to work with. Ground covers are an easy plant for these these hard to garden areas, making them prettier than they were, without having to work too hard. Ground covers make the soil useful once again, as the plants continue to spread and give your landscape color.

Posted Friday, April 7, 2006

The Sun rose is an easy growing, low growing, shrub that will produce small red flowers with yellow centers. The leaves on this plant are an evergreen type, with the number of flowers seeming to out-number the leaves. The Sun rose plant will bloom for weeks at a time starting in late spring months and lasting through the mid summer months, but each individual flower lasts just one day before dying off.

This plant grows best in grow zones six through eight in the full sun areas of your landscape. The full sun areas of your landscape sometimes can be difficult to fill, but the Sun Rose ground cover is an exciting alternative for planting. The soil needed for this plant to thrive is a loose sandy soil. If you have heavy clay you will need to work with this soil before planting the Sun rose with any success.

Sun rose is an easy to care for and easy to grow flower, making it a great choice for beginner gardeners. When first planting Sun rose, plant them at least two feet apart, as over the years they will grow, creep and fill in the area. If you find that in the beginning of summer your plants are no longer blooming you can cut them back about half way to promote new growth and new flowers for a longer blooming season into the summer months.

Sun rose grows to be anywhere from six inches to one foot tall when mature. This plant will spread out two to three feet, depending on how loose your soil really is. During the first year of growth, you may only see this plant spread about a foot wide, but in the second year as the roots are more stable and the plant has taken hold it will spread out quickly.