Formosa Carpet Raspberry
The formosan carpet raspberry is one of the fastest spreading and toughest edible ground covers that we know of.
Formosa carpet raspberry. From taiwan this ground cover has delicious aggregate fruits that range. There is also a low growing raspberry formosa carpet that is evergreen and spreads to form a mat ground cover. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Lyons perfect for hot dry erodible slopes or a ditch where moisture fluctuates this groundcover thrives in difficult spots other plants can not tolerate.
Propagate by cutting away rooted stems or layering in early spring and fall. To keep this plant contained you ll need to use some garden edging. The fruit is different from the raspberries we re used to but it is tasty. Currant bushes have lovely lobed leaves like fancy maples.
They branch out with an airy. The formosa carpet raspberry can be found creeping in the grasslands and thickets of taiwan. White flowers with amber fruits in late spring. Creeping raspberry care contrary to its delicious counterparts creeping raspberry makes an excellent ground cover.
Water well on planting and regularly until established. Formosa carpet produces small five petaled white flowers that turn into sweet flavorful amber colored raspberries atop hairy but thornless stems late spring to early summer. Succeeds in deep shade. With so many available recently it is great to have a name you can recognise.
The deep evergreen maple shaped leaves turn a deep red in the fall and winter adding additional seasons of color and interest to your landscape. Grow in full sun average to dry soil with good drainage. Because of its spreading habit of growth it is ideally suited for use as a spiller in the spiller thriller filler container combination. Rubus hayata koidzumii commonly known as creeping raspberry is often listed incorrectly as rubus calycinoides or rubus pentalobus.
Very durable easily grown in a good well drained loamy soil in sun or semi shade. Formosa carpet raspberry hardy sweet juicy rubus calcynoides potted. In addition to its attractively textured evergreen foliage and low maintenance nature it also produces little edible yellow orange raspberries that are quite delicious. Metal concrete or brick edging that goes at least 4.
Excellent groundcover container plant or. Anfisa kameneva eyeem getty images. Plants are evergreen in most climates but they can lose their leaves in severe winters the formosa carpet raspberry can be found creeping in the grasslands and thickets of taiwan. Plant it near the edges where it can spill gracefully over the pot.
Emerald carpet raspberry makes a fine choice for the outdoor landscape but it is also well suited for use in outdoor pots and containers.