I put three of these in my front rose garden yesterday to fill in some pretty ugly bare areas. Does anyone have any experience with it? The pot said "rubus calcinoides" but the closest I can find on the PlantFiles is "rubus pentalobus." Both said "aka emerald carpet" so I am ASSUMING it's the same thing. (Yes, I know what I do when I ASSUME.)
I don't know about rubus, but it looks like a hollyhock to me.
I think it is a geranium! They are very hardy!
I thought about a geranium but the leaves seem too shiny and textured. My hollyhock leaves look like that. Well, they did before the rain and grass hoppers did them in. :(
BL ~
Why do I think you respond to a challenge? You find an unusual plant and it screams "I'll bet you can't keep me alive! ~ C'mon, I dare you!" LLLOL ~ where do you find some of these plants. (I suffer a similar affliction, sorry)
This is a new one on me and you made me look in my reference books...
Sunset states ~ an evergreen shrub, ground cover. Creeping stems make a mat that spreads 1 ft a year. Densely packed green leaves are ruffled, nearly round, look crinkled above, felty beneath. Some leaves turn red or bronze in winter or in full sun. (how pretty) Small white flowers like those of strawberry, edible salmon colored berries. Emerald carpet is the selection most commonly seen. But you probably knew all that all ready.
Sorry, no experience with it here. Let me know how you like it though, pretty please? : ) pod
Ya your right after I clicked the pic the leaf is not right for a geranium! LOL
But I have a, well what I thought/think is a weed, in my yard called common mallow!
It puts of a little white with pink edges flower. I will dig it up and send it to you if you want! LOL It spreads like wild fire and is a perinnial, and reseeds its self! LOL
I had to spray it three times with round-up to kill it, and some of it came back!! LOL
I got this in Home Depot (YES I KNOW I SAID I'D NEVER GO THERE AGAIN BUT I PAID IN CASH AND NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW) (plus it wasn't the one that ticked me off, it was the one in Orange, TX) in the "groundcover" section. It's already rooting along the stems! I'll post pictures when it is dramatically different, but for now it looks like it's going to like it in my front rose bed.
(Fingers crossed, thinking of raspberry jam...)
I first saw this listed on jeeperscreepers, when I was searching for 'stepables', and low groundcovers.
Then, I spotted some at a local nursery, so picked one up to try. So far, it is a very happy grower, and is doing well.
I have dorman red(prostrate trailing groundcover raspberries that can take a lot of heat), and hope that these do as well as the dormans have done.
Everyone asks me what this is, and compliments the foliage...
-T
I'm really pleased with it so far -- it's taking off.
