Rosa x floribunda Urban Streetlight Rekord Sommerabend - Groundcover Floribunda Rose

The Rosier Urban Streetlight Rekord Sommerabend is a true groundcover rose, well covering, which extends as a carpet and unfolds a magnificent sparkling flowering, cascading down slopes and walls or forming beautiful red streams in borders. It is also capable of covering any small structure. Throughout the summer, until the first frosts, hundreds of small blood-red flowers with golden centres succeed each other abundantly on its beautiful dark green foliage, unaffected by diseases. This variety, created by the German rose breeder Kordes in 1995, remains a reference among groundcover roses.

The hybrid rose Sommerabend 'Kormarec' obtained the highly selective German A.D.R. label in 1996, for its excellent disease resistance among other criteria. It is part of a series of roses developed in partnership with 'Globe Planter', the 'Urban Streetlight' roses, bringing together varieties selected for their bulletproof health, their robustness, and their ability to bloom enthusiastically without requiring much maintenance. These plants are widely used in urban landscaping.

This variety 'Sommerabend' belongs to the family of floribunda roses, with flowers grouped in clusters, and to the category of groundcover roses due to its low and spreading habit. It quickly forms a very dense carpet, about 30 cm (12in) high and 80 cm (32in) wide. Its long thorny stems are well branched and covered with abundant foliage, a beautiful glossy dark green, finely toothed leaflets on the edges. Its flowering, particularly abundant in June-July, regularly continues until October if the soil remains somewhat moist in summer. Its small 4-5 cm (2in) diameter corollas, with 5 petals, form flat cups and are grouped in clusters. Their colour is a bright, vibrant red. They open to reveal a small throat, slightly more pink, sheltering a beautiful heart of yellow stamens. The deciduous foliage turns yellow before falling in autumn.

The groundcover rose 'Sommerabend' adapts to all soils that are not too dry and to all climates, which allows it to be welcomed without reservation in many regions. In the south, place it preferably in the morning sun, while it will flower better in full sun in the north. It works wonders in rock gardens, above a wall, planted along a path, at the base of a hedge or at the front of a shrub border. It can also be planted en masse to cover large areas, for example on a large slope where it will effectively cover the ground. Also, associate it with groundcover roses with white, pink, yellow, red, or orange flowers to highlight the path of an alley or the edge of a patio. Groundcover roses create magnificent displays with perennial geraniums, catmints, and perennial salvias. With a little daring, it can be paired with Muhlenbergia capillaris, a grass that produces a cloud of pink flowers in late summer, rock cress, and perennial flax for the intense blue of its flowers.