Rose 'Magic Carpet' - Shrub Rose
An enchanting shrub rose that brings mystical beauty to any garden space with its abundant displays of spectacular multi-coloured blooms, captivating fruity fragrance, and exceptional flowering performance throughout the season, perfectly complemented by vibrant green foliage and compact spreading growth that makes it ideal for ground cover, borders, mass plantings, and magical garden displays where ever-changing colour creates spellbinding garden tapestries.
Headlines
- Plant Type: Hardy deciduous shrub rose
- Eventual Height: 80cm
- Eventual Spread: 125cm
- Flowering Period: June to October
- Flower Colour: Multi-coloured pink, coral, and cream with changing hues
- Hardiness: Hardy in the UK down to temperatures of -20 to -15 degrees Celsius (RHS hardiness rating H6)
- Growth Habit: Compact, spreading, with dense carpet-forming habit
- Flower Type: Semi-double blooms in abundant waves
- Fragrance: Captivating fruity fragrance with apple notes
Overview
Rose 'Magic Carpet' exemplifies enchanted garden excellence, producing continuous displays of spectacular multi-coloured blooms that create mystical beauty throughout the extended growing season. This outstanding variety transforms garden spaces with its perfectly proportioned spreading growth that showcases abundant waves of semi-double blooms, where individual flowers feature beautiful multi-coloured petals in pink, coral, and cream with ever-changing hues in magnificent arrangements that create magical visual presence in any garden setting. The mystical colour palette makes this rose particularly impressive for contemporary naturalistic gardens and enchanting ground cover displays, representing transformation, wonder, and garden magic. The flowers emerge in repeated displays throughout the season with excellent repeat flowering, creating sustained displays that reach perfect proportions with consistent appealing beauty. The captivating fruity fragrance enhances the spectacular visual impact, creating memorable garden experiences that complement both modern landscape displays and naturalistic garden designs with enchanting beauty and reliable spreading performance.
Key Features
The outstanding appeal of 'Magic Carpet' lies in its abundant semi-double blooms that showcase mystical formation with spectacular multi-coloured elegance and perfect spreading presence. Each flower displays beautifully formed structure with semi-double petals featuring enchanting multi-coloured hues in pink, coral, and cream with ever-changing tones in magnificent wave arrangements, creating displays of exceptional beauty and magical charm. The mystical multi-coloured palette provides enchanting displays that maintain their transformative sophistication throughout the flowering season, creating spectacular visual magic that symbolises wonder and garden enchantment. The flowers are produced in abundant waves with excellent repeat flowering characteristics, emerging continuously throughout the summer that add magnificent anticipation to the spreading garden display. The captivating fruity fragrance with apple notes complements the mystical visual appeal, creating memorable garden experiences that enhance both ground cover applications and garden enjoyment with magical colour sophistication and delightful aromatic charm.
Growth Characteristics
The compact spreading growth provides excellent proportioned structure for impressive ground cover displays and garden features, making this variety particularly valuable for slopes, borders, and garden applications where space coverage and spectacular flowering carpets are essential. The vibrant green foliage is produced abundantly throughout the growing season, creating an exceptionally attractive backdrop that perfectly complements the multi-coloured bloom palette whilst maintaining excellent vigour and fresh appeal. The dense carpet-forming habit ensures reliable flowering whilst creating substantial visual impact that fits perfectly into diverse garden settings, with the spreading size making it ideal for ground cover cultivation and prominent garden positions where its enchanting beauty can be fully appreciated.
Flowering Performance
Throughout the summer to autumn, 'Magic Carpet' delivers exceptional flowering displays with excellent repeat blooming that continues reliably throughout the extended growing season. The plant produces abundant waves of multi-coloured blooms consistently, creating impressive visual impact with exceptional performance that ensures ongoing garden enchantment. The individual semi-double blooms develop with mystical formation, allowing gardeners to appreciate the perfect multi-coloured palette sophistication and ever-changing hue magic, whilst the generous wave size ensures impressive presence for extended periods throughout the spreading plant size. The free flowering nature with excellent repeat characteristics ensures magnificent displays throughout the season, with the ongoing magical blooms providing persistent focal points that enhance garden spaces with their transformative colour palette and captivating fruity fragrance.
Growing Conditions
'Magic Carpet' thrives in full sun to partial shade with fertile, well-prepared, moist but well-drained soil, requiring good drainage whilst maintaining consistent moisture for optimal performance and colour development. The rose adapts excellently to ground cover cultivation and performs brilliantly in slopes, borders, and garden spaces where the multi-coloured palette can create maximum visual impact. For best results, plant in sunny to lightly shaded locations with good air circulation, incorporating well-rotted organic matter or quality garden compost to support the healthy spreading growth and vibrant green foliage development. The variety benefits from regular feeding during the growing season and responds exceptionally well to naturalistic cultivation practices, whilst the perfect spreading size makes it suitable for diverse garden situations from ground cover to magical garden borders where its enchanting qualities and multi-coloured intensity can be celebrated.
Hardiness and Disease Resistance
'Magic Carpet' demonstrates excellent disease resistance characteristics with reliable resilience in UK growing conditions, maintaining healthy growth throughout the season with outstanding vigour in its spreading size. The variety shows excellent hardiness with good cold tolerance, making it dependable for gardeners seeking reliable ground cover plantings. The vibrant green foliage remains attractive and vigorous with excellent disease resistance, making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking dependable plantings with manageable maintenance requirements. The hardy nature ensures consistent performance across different growing conditions and seasonal changes, supporting reliable colour development and flowering performance throughout the growing season.
Care and Maintenance
'Magic Carpet' requires standard shrub rose maintenance to achieve optimal flowering performance and spreading development. Apply balanced rose fertiliser in early spring and again in early summer, with regular watering during dry periods to support the healthy spreading growth and abundant flower production. The excellent disease resistance means this variety requires minimal intervention with standard care practices, making it ideal for gardeners seeking reliable plantings with magical impact. Regular deadheading encourages continued flowering and maintains the spectacular colour display throughout the season, whilst light annual pruning in late winter maintains the spreading structure and promotes strong new growth for optimal flowering performance.
Garden Applications
'Magic Carpet' excels in enchanting ground cover displays and mystical garden features where its magical beauty and spreading proportions can be fully appreciated. The multi-coloured palette makes it ideal for naturalistic ground cover displays, eye-catching garden features, and transformative landscapes where ever-changing colour impact and reliable spreading performance are essential. Perfect for slopes, mass plantings, front of borders, and contemporary garden displays, this rose provides outstanding cut flowers that enhance floral arrangements with magical colour for special occasions and enchanting displays. The spreading growth and excellent repeat flowering make it particularly suitable for creating stunning carpet effects in gardens and ground cover collections, whilst the perfect size and mystical nature ensure it provides impressive presence where its transformative colour creates spectacular garden magic.
Ground Cover Cultivation
The compact spreading growth makes 'Magic Carpet' excellently suited to ground cover cultivation in various garden situations and landscape applications. The rose thrives in well-prepared garden soil with good drainage and organic matter, responding well to regular feeding and consistent care where the spreading growth can create maximum flowering carpet impact. Plant at spacing of approximately 90cm apart for optimal coverage and development, using quality garden compost and slow-release fertiliser. Regular ground cover care during the growing season ensures optimal flowering coverage and healthy development, maximising the spectacular carpet display and seasonal enjoyment.
Seasonal Interest
Throughout the growing season, 'Magic Carpet' provides exceptional seasonal interest with continuous spreading displays and outstanding performance. Spring brings the emergence of vibrant green foliage and strong new spreading growth, building anticipation for the main spectacular flowering display. The magnificent multi-coloured blooms from summer through autumn with excellent repeat flowering provide months of transformative colour that maintains its magical appeal throughout the season, creating consistent enchanting impact. The attractive vibrant green foliage remains healthy throughout the season with excellent disease resistance, providing perfect backdrop for the spreading flower displays, whilst the dense carpet-forming structure provides attractive garden interest year-round.
Fragrance Profile
'Magic Carpet' features captivating fruity fragrance with apple notes that will delightfully enchant the senses, complementing the mystical visual display and enhancing the garden experience. The fruity perfume with apple highlights adds fresh aromatic appeal whilst making this rose particularly valuable for garden positions where both visual beauty and delightful fragrant interest are desired for magical occasions. The captivating fruity fragrance enhances garden atmosphere and makes this variety suitable for areas where enchanting scent contributes to the mystical garden experience, particularly near seating areas and outdoor entertaining spaces where the perfume creates lasting magical impressions.
Companion Planting
The multi-coloured palette of 'Magic Carpet' provides excellent opportunities for companion planting with complementary garden plants and diverse colour schemes. The magical multi-coloured palette works beautifully with plants that provide harmonising or contrasting tones, whilst green and bronze foliage plants provide excellent backdrop that allows the colour transformation to shine. Purple and blue flowers provide striking contrasts that highlight the multi-coloured blooms, whilst complementary ground cover plants and naturalistic perennials can create stunning carpet combinations throughout the growing season.
Garden Integration
The excellent spreading qualities and mystical nature make 'Magic Carpet' particularly valuable for gardeners who wish to integrate enchanting beauty into ground cover displays and magical garden features. The spreading compact growth, abundant semi-double blooms with transformative colour intensity, and captivating fruity fragrance create outstanding garden displays that provide lasting seasonal enhancement whilst maintaining the magical significance of the multi-coloured palette drama. The reliable spreading growth ensures impressive flowering impact whilst maintaining perfect proportions, making it ideal for garden beauty and enchanting displays that provide mystical statements for magical garden areas with excellent performance.
Contemporary Appeal
'Magic Carpet' represents exceptional shrub rose breeding that combines mystical beauty with perfect spreading proportions and contemporary appeal, making it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking distinctive roses with enchanting characteristics. The multi-coloured palette offers exceptional visual magic whilst maintaining classic rose appeal and performance, making it particularly suitable for contemporary garden designs and modern landscape displays where transformative colour statements and ground coverage are important considerations.
Enchanting Garden Value
'Magic Carpet' offers gardeners a mystical variety that combines transformative beauty with exceptional reliability and magical appeal. The variety's enchanting appearance and dependable spreading growth habit have made it popular among gardeners who appreciate roses that combine visual magic with reliable garden performance and suitability for ground cover applications and naturalistic spaces that need a touch of mystical enchantment.
Why Choose 'Magic Carpet'?
Rose 'Magic Carpet' represents the perfect combination of mystical beauty, multi-coloured elegance, and outstanding reliability. The abundant waves of semi-double multi-coloured blooms with their captivating fruity fragrance provide exceptional displays from summer through autumn with excellent repeat flowering, whilst the spreading healthy growth and excellent disease resistance ensure dependable performance with standard maintenance requirements. Whether grown for enchanting ground cover displays, magical garden features, mass plantings, or simply for its transformative beauty and reliable spreading nature, this outstanding shrub rose offers exceptional value that combines mystical appeal with reliable garden excellence, creating lasting memories and enduring beauty that celebrates wonder and garden magic with spreading enchantment that enhances any garden setting where transformation, reliability, and perfect magical impact are appreciated.
Reasons to Buy Roses from Jacksons Nurseries
(1) ‘Excellent’ on Trustpilot
Buy with confidence from the only online rose grower rated ‘Excellent’ 4.9* on Trustpilot. We have been a trusted supplier of roses for 3 generations. We take pride in growing our own roses in the field before potting them up, allowing for meticulous quality control to sale.
(2) Best Prices Guaranteed – Direct from the Grower
Save £££s by buying direct from a grower you can trust. We’ve already price checked all of our roses against competitors so you don’t have to. We are so confident we offer the best value, if you find a rose of the same type and grade elsewhere, we’ll beat it by 10%.
(3) 12 Month Plants Guarantee
We offer a 12 month guarantee on every plant that you buy from us that we have classified as Fully Hardy. If a plant you've bought from us fails in the first year, we will either replace it or refund you. See our satisfaction guarantee page for more details and conditions.
(4) Third generation family-owned nursery specialising in roses
Jackson’s Nurseries is a 3rd generation family owned business which has been growing roses for over 60 years. Roses have always been our specialty, as you can see from the colourful array of blooms in the background to the old family photo below. Today, we offer over 200 different varieties of floribundas, hybrid teas, patio, shrub and David Austin roses. Our roses are initially grown in the field before being potted up for website dispatch.
(5) Grown at altitude to produce strong, healthy plants
Our North Staffordshire nursery is situated at 250 metres above sea level, producing strong, hardy plants that will thrive in your garden. Our nursery sits on clay, so you can be sure our roses can handle heavy soil too.
(6) Help & Advice and Aftercare
We are help to help you with any help and advice you need in choosing, planting and growing your roses before, during and after your purchase from us. The help and advice section of our website has extensive information, see below some examples of articles you may find useful:
- Different types of roses and what they each mean
- Guide to climbing roses
- Guide to floribunda roses
- Guide to hybrid tea roses
- How to plant a climbing rose
- How to grow hybrid tea roses
How our roses are supplied through the seasons
All our roses are cultivated in an open field and are carefully dug up when the weather is optimal, typically in October or November. While other nurseries supply roses bare root, once our field-grown roses have been potted up we supply them freshly potted. This better protects the roots and helps keep them moist in transit, ensuring your roses arrive as healthy as when they left our nursery. So don’t be alarmed if the compost comes away from the roots when you remove them from the pot.
The roses can remain in their pots over the winter, as long as they are properly watered and fed, but it's best to plant them out as soon as possible. If you do plant them straight away make sure the planting mix is prepared first, hold the root close to the top of the hole as you tip the pot upside down and try to keep as much compost as possible from falling away. They will already be pruned, so no additional pruning is needed except for trimming any dead tips. Regular pruning can start in late winter, the year after planting.
Rose Types
Hybrid Tea Roses (HT)
Hybrid Tea roses are probably the most popular group of roses, available in both bush and standard form they have long flower stems and shapely blooms. Blooms are typically medium to large in size, with many petals which form a distinct central cone.
Floribunda Roses (FL)
Floribunda roses bears its flowers in clusters or trusses, with several blooms open at time in each truss. A popular choice the Floribunda rose group is unrivalled for colour, reliability and longevity as a bedding display however the flower form in generally inferior to the Hybrid Tea.
Patio Roses (PATIO)
Patio roses were introduced in the 1980’s and the group now contains several popular varieties. Generally low-growing roses that were once grouped with the Floribuna group but have now been put in their own group of compact versions. Usually growing about 50cm high they make excellent plants for patio containers or at the front of borders.
Climbing Roses (CLM)
Climbing roses as the name suggests are the perfect choice for covering a wall or screen. Often grouped together with Ramblers, Climbers tend to have stiffer stems, larger flowers but smaller trusses than Ramblers.
Rambling Roses (RAM)
Rambling roses are often grouped with Climbing Roses but the ramblers tend to have a more pliable stems that can be used to run along the soil to use as groundcover or can be used to make weeping standards.
Miniature Roses (MINI)
Miniature roses have increased in popularity in recent years due to their versatility, even grown indoors as temporary pot plants that grow to a maximum height of 40cm. An ideal choice for planting in tubs, edging beds and rockeries.
English Roses (ENG)
Often referred to as Austin or David Austin Roses, English roses are hybrids of old English roses and more modern varieties bread by David Austin to provide the best of both, mixing old rose shapes and scents with more modern colour range, compact habits and repeat flowering.
Planting Advice
Roses like a generous root space, so dig a deep hole approximately twice as wide as the current root system, preferably adding composted organic matter to the soil. Never plant into frozen soil – in winter, await a frost-free period. Carefully remove the pot and gently tease the roots apart to spread them around the hole. Position the plant so that the ‘bud point’ (the place where the shoots emerge from, where the cultivated rose was grafted onto the rootstock) is at soil level. Replace the soil, firming it down gently, then water copiously. Ideally, a general purpose fertiliser should be applied to the surrounding soil as a top dressing. We also highly recommend the use of Rose Rootgrow, which provides a friendly fungus that prevents ‘rose replant syndrome’.
Buying our Roses
Pot Size
Most of our roses are supplied in a 4 litre pot although this may vary slightly depending on rose variety. If the size of pot differes significatly from 4 litres then we will make this clear somewhere on the product page.
Seasonality
Our roses are grown outdoors and as such are subject to seasonal changes. As we sell potted stock throughout the year your rose may not arrive and look like you expect it to. If you are uncertain how your rose will arrive (especially if buying for a gift) then we suggest you contact us prior to making a purchase.
Freshly Potted
Each year a new batch of roses is potted up ready for the following season. Once potted (usually November/December time) they go on sale as 'Freshly Potted'. If you purchase a freshly potted rose and plant it soon after you will find that when removing the rose from the pot there will be a lot of loose soil as the roots will not have had time to grow and bind the compost.
Pruned/Cut Back
In autumn the majority of our roses have finished flowering and begin to look untidy, at this point we prune them quite hard in preparation for the following season. We continue to sell roses throughout the year, when a rose has been pruned in such a way we will identify it has being so. If you are not sure what to expect then please ask prior to making a purchase. Some garden centres/supermarkets sell stock that has been grown abroad or in poly-tunnels so they look 'picture perfect' out of season, while this is ideal for a gift they are short lived once planted.
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