Popcorn Drift® Groundcover Rose

Popcorn Drift® Rose opens butter-yellow buds into creamy white double flowers carried in tight clusters, and the mix of both stages at once is where the name comes from. Rosa 'Novarospop' grows 1 to 2 feet tall and spreads 2 to 3 feet in full sun, hardy from Zone 4 through Zone 11.

The flowers are about an inch and a half to two inches across and packed with roughly 25 petals, opening softly cupped so the golden stamens show. Bloom runs continuously from mid-spring to frost, and the yellow-to-white shift varies with temperature, so cool weather holds more yellow and heat pushes it toward cream.

Drift roses are a cross between full-size groundcover roses and miniature roses, bred to stay low and spread wide while blooming continuously. They were developed to fill the awkward spots: hillsides, narrow strips along a walk, the front edge of a bed, containers. All of them are self-cleaning, disease resistant, and need no deadheading.

No deadheading is needed. The flowers clean off on their own and the plant fills to the ground with glossy foliage. Disease resistance is high, so it holds clean foliage through humid summers with no spray program. Cut back by about a third in late winter. Shipped on its own roots.