Popcorn Drift Rose

Rosa ‘Novarospop’ PPAF

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-11 Find Your Zone >

Plant Type: Groundcover Rose

Height at Maturity: 18″ with annual late winter hard pruning to 4 to 6 inches above ground

Width at Maturity: 2.5 -3′ with annual late winter hard pruning to 4 to 6 inches above ground

Spacing: 2′ apart for low hedges or 4’+ apart for space between

Growth Habit / Form: Dense, Mounding

Growth Rate: Fast

Flower Color: White, Creamy White, Yellow, Pink

Flower Size: 2″

Flowering Period: Spring to Frost!

Flower Type: Double

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Medium Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Attracts: Visual Attention

Sun Needs: Full Sun or Mostly Sun, Morning Sun with Dappled or Afternoon Shade

Water Needs: Average

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sand, Silt

Soil Drainage: Well drained

Soil pH: 6.0 – 8.0

Maintenance / Care: Low

Resistances: Disease, Drought (when established), Heat, Humidity

Description

One of the most popular in the Drift Series, spring through fall the Popcorn Drift Rose produces an abundance of double yellow buds that open to creamy white flowers. Both buds and flower occur simultaneously providing a wonderful two-tone effect. The flowers are borne in clusters on low trailing plants sporting deep green glossy foliage that helps showcase blossoms. Disease resistance is exceptional. We’ve found that Drift Roses have about five flower cycles yearly. The spring bloom in April and the fall bloom are the heaviest, with sporadic lighter flowering between.

The new family of Drift Roses are comparable to the family of Knock Out Roses in disease resistance and low-maintenance, however are much smaller in size. They get their small size from being a cross between full-size groundcover roses and miniature roses. From the former they kept toughness, disease resistance and winter hardiness. From the miniatures, they inherited their well-managed size and repeat-blooming nature.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Being dwarfs, Drift Roses are ideal for use as a specimen in small to medium size garden spaces, pots, planters and other patio containers of 12 inches or more in rim diameter. In larger landscape spaces, for stunning floral displays plant them in groupings or mass plantings for vibrant splashes of season-long color, or as a front facing border in home foundation plantings, landscape borders or rose gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 24 inches apart for mass plantings; 4 feet or more apart for space between plants

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Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 4a, where this Drift Rose variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Growing Requirements

Drift Roses are exceptionally easy to grow in average, well-drained soils with medium moisture in full sun to part shade. To avoid powdery mildew on leaves, all roses require morning sun to dry the morning dew from their leaves. Some afternoon shade or filtered sun is fine. We suggest 6 hours of direct sunlight per day for best flowering. Drift Roses do not require pruning, however, they do benefit from it. We cut our Drift Roses back to about 4 to 6 inches above the ground before new growth begins to emerge in late winter or very early spring. Plants will quickly flush out and start blooming with the arrival of spring temperatures. Deadheading spent flowers is not necessary however will encourage more new buds and flowers.

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We have several of these along a rock retaining wall and they are so nice.—————————————–We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

They arrived wonderfully packed and in great shape. They will be planted this week-end, so I hope its not too late.—————————They should be just fine! We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

The bush came well-budded with white roses. Interestingly, the buds are showing as peach color rather than yellow, and some have opened as a beautiful almost fluorescent color before changing to white. It may be because the soil here is very acidic.—————————————-It could be the soil acidity…they sould like they are pretty though….We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

I love this drift rose! The slight blush of yellow adds dimension. to the flower and it grows quickly. I immediately saw blooms all over the bush and now we are on our second round of blooms! Beautiful rose bush and wonderful company to work with! The Wilson Bros wrap the plants very carefully and so they arrive happy and healthy.—————————————–Thanks so much for the great review! We are so glad you are pleased! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG