Transform slopes, borders, and difficult spaces with season-long color and beautiful English-style blooms.
Petal Pushers Ground Cover Rose transforms challenging landscape spaces into beautiful garden features. Whether covering a sunny slope, softening a retaining wall, edging a border, or filling broad landscape beds, this easy-care rose creates a dense carpet of glossy green foliage covered with charming old-fashioned pink blooms from late spring through late fall. It delivers the practical performance of a landscape rose with the beauty gardeners expect from Jackson & Perkins.
Bred by renowned hybridizer Dr. Keith Zary and introduced as part of the Jackson & Perkins Ultimate Rose Collection, Petal Pushers combines outstanding flower quality with dependable landscape performance. Unlike many ground cover roses that produce simple blooms, this variety features fully double, English-style flowers that bring premium beauty to places where traditional Hybrid Tea Roses are often less practical. Its naturally spreading habit, excellent disease resistance, and ability to flower with as little as 4 to 6 hours of direct sunlight make it remarkably versatile throughout the garden.
Why You'll Love It
Transforms slopes, borders, and difficult landscape areas into colorful displays
Fully double, old-fashioned pink blooms with classic English-style flower form
Blooms continuously from late spring through late fall
Thrives in full sun or with as little as 4 to 6 hours of direct sunlight
Healthy glossy foliage with excellent disease resistance
Jackson & Perkins selects roses that combine exceptional beauty with outstanding garden performance, and Petal Pushers is an excellent example of that philosophy. Rather than asking gardeners to choose between flower quality and landscape function, this variety delivers both. Its lush, quartered blooms resemble classic English garden roses while its vigorous, spreading habit quickly fills landscape spaces with season-long color.
Growing approximately 3 feet tall and spreading to about 4 feet wide, Petal Pushers creates broad drifts of flowers that suppress visual gaps and soften hard edges throughout the landscape. It performs beautifully spilling over retaining walls, lining pathways, cascading down slopes, or weaving through perennial plantings where continuous bloom and low maintenance are equally important.
Sun Exposure: Full sun to partial sun (4 to 6 hours of direct sunlight)
USDA Hardiness Zones: 5-9
Disease Resistance: Excellent
Best Garden Uses: Ground cover, slopes, retaining walls, borders, mass plantings, landscape beds, and foundation plantings
Frequently Asked Questions
What makes Petal Pushers different from other ground cover roses? Petal Pushers combines the spreading habit and easy-care performance of a landscape rose with lush, fully double blooms that resemble classic English garden roses, bringing premium flower quality to landscape spaces that often receive ordinary ground covers.
Can Petal Pushers grow in partial sun? Yes. Petal Pushers flowers reliably with as little as 4 to 6 hours of direct sunlight each day, making it an excellent choice for gardens that receive less than full-day sun.
Does Petal Pushers bloom throughout the season? Yes. It produces repeated flushes of blooms from late spring through late fall, providing dependable color for months with minimal maintenance.
Is Petal Pushers easy to grow? Yes. Healthy foliage, excellent disease resistance, and a naturally spreading habit make it an excellent choice for gardeners seeking beautiful, low-maintenance landscape performance.
Where does Petal Pushers perform best? Petal Pushers excels on slopes, along pathways, over retaining walls, in borders, and throughout landscape beds where broad sweeps of continuous color are desired.
Care Tips
Plant in full sun to partial sun in fertile, well-drained soil. Water deeply while plants become established and remove spent blooms if desired to encourage continued flowering. Prune lightly in late winter or early spring to maintain shape and stimulate vigorous new growth.
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I bought three of these many years ago and they should have perished of shameful neglect. Fast forward I repotted and repositioned them and they are thriving. Just beautiful little champions of my rose garden.
TriShar from NC
October 29, 2025
Petal Pushers Ground Cover Rose
This shopper rated the product 2 out of 5 stars
Received it last week. Right now the leaves are getting yellow. Hopefully it will recover
Alicia from FL
May 10, 2018
Arrived. Great start....
This shopper rated the product 5 out of 5 stars
I bought 4 of these to plant on north side of a picket fence. A problem area in my rose garden. As expected from J&P, these were good, top notch quality and healthy upon unpacking. In ground for a month and taking off nicely.
NC Gardenguy from NC
March 12, 2018
Petal Pushers Groundcover Rose
This shopper rated the product 5 out of 5 stars
A delight! I bought this on sale last summer, so planted late. Took off immediately with startling pink blooms, healthy green foliage. And it kept going until mid-November. It was in a planter box with other mature plants nearby. No mildew, black spot, or other yuck, despite the hot, humid Virginia weather. Looks as if it has weathered winter well, and I can't wait to see this little darling again this spring.
VAbygrace from VA
January 27, 2016
Love it
This shopper rated the product 5 out of 5 stars
I ordered 3 plants and got only one. :( After 2 months (the first week of July) this plant was blooming. In October I had a fully developed rose bush that was blooming until frost. :) We have a mild winter this year and I hope the bush will survive.
Siam in Zone 5 from NY
Choosing Your Roses
Bare root roses are the most common form of roses for spring and early season planting, and come in two types: grafted and own root.
Grafted roses, sometimes referred to as budded bare root roses, have roots that belong to a different variety of rose than the shoots. While the shoots will grow into the variety of rose you've selected, the root variety has been specially grown and developed for hardiness, improved resistance to common diseases, and improved resistance to certain weather conditions. The roots on any grafted rose you receive are usually already two years old, so they'll establish in your garden more quickly when planted.
Own root roses are grown from rose shoot cuttings and develop their own root system. Unlike grafted roses, both their roots and shoots come from the same variety of plant.
All Jackson & Perkins bare root roses are maintained in a suspended state of growth in our state-of-the-art wet cooler, so they'll be delivered to you with no foliage or blooms. The wet cooler has a uniform storage temperature set just above freezing and uses a fog system to provide consistent humidity of 100%, ensuring the roses remain fully hydrated and don't exit dormancy before leaving our facility. While you might see some variance in size, even within the same variety of bare root rose, all our roses meet the same rigorous standards of quality.
So, not sure which type of bare root rose you should choose? Don't worry, we've got that covered. We've researched which varieties of bare root roses grow better as grafted or own root, and both types can be planted in the early spring months, so just choose the variety of rose you're most interested in and get planting.
Though you might be surprised or intimidated when you receive a box of bare root roses filled with roots and shoots, rest assured, with the proper care, these little bundles will grow into stunning roses.
Container Roses
Container roses are typically available in 2-quart sizes or larger and come with established foliage that may or may not have blooms. While bare root roses should generally be planted in early spring, container roses allow you quite a bit more flexibility in planting time, from spring all the way through fall in many zones. Fall can be a good season to plant container roses because it allows them enough time to establish themselves before cold or freezing temperatures arrive.
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The Jackson & Perkins Difference
Jackson & Perkins is one of the most recognized names in the gardening industry. In fact, for decades rose lovers have considered Jackson & Perkins synonymous with great roses. How has Jackson & Perkins earned this reputation? Simple, for over 100 years we have brought our customers the world's finest selection of roses.
Jackson & Perkins became a leader in the world of roses by producing dozens of award-winning roses. Jackson & Perkins has won more All-America Rose Selection awards than any other US company. In addition to the AARS awards, Jackson & Perkins has won numerous other awards, including the coveted Golden Rose of The Hague and the Royal National Rose Society’s President’s International trophy, among others.
From seed to market a new garden rose can take 8 to 10 years to develop. Every year, thousands of seedlings are grown but only a handful are selected to move into the trial phase. During this time, potential new roses are grown and evaluated in different climatic regions of the country. Our rosarians are looking for rose bushes that have stronger disease resistance, vigorous growth habits, and clean healthy foliage. When it comes to blooms, they are looking for improved flower form, unique colors, and strong fragrance.
Today Jackson & Perkins offers over 200 varieties of roses that includes a broad selection of exclusive roses, historical favorites, and innovative genetics from hybridizers around the world. We have two seasons each year for roses. In the spring, we offer bare root rose bushes, bare root 36” trees, 24” patio trees, and container grown roses. Our fall season is all bush roses, and they are available in 2QT and 1GL containers.
Whether you are new to roses or are an experienced rosarian, our online store has rose varieties for you. Our website is packed with information. You will find each rose fully described and lots of articles and videos that will help answer all your questions. Our call center staff have decades of experience and are just a phone call away.
Jackson & Perkins is here to help you in every way on your rose-growing journey. There is no other plant in the garden that comes in more colors, fragrances, shapes, or forms, or performs as many functions than roses do.
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