"Katie" wrote:
Does anyone have experience with flower carpet roses? I
did a search on them and couldn't find anything negative.
They've been recommended to me by a landscaper as low
maintenance, natually disease resistant, prolific blooming
ground cover. Anyone know how these actually work in the
landscape? Are they a good plant? I'm in charge of renovating
the landscape at the entrance to our neighborhood and am
considering this plant.

A friend in Billings, Montana planted a mess of them and lost
them all. Then again, that was on a rocky slope with poor soil,
and she didn't water them regularly and long enough, I think, to
get them established. (Note that she was in the valley, which
is zone 5, not up on the Rims, which is zone 3; also note that
with drip irrigation when it's dry, roses do rather well in Billings,
what with the dry air most of the year and a relatively mild climate
in the valley due to the Yellowstone river.) Just to show you
that ANYTHING can be killed with neglect.

There are probably other ground-cover roses that would do as
well as the Flower Carpet variety -- might get a bit boring if
there are a lot of them.

Mark., now in zone 8b