What colors are Drift Roses?

Drift rose flower colors include apricot, peach, pink, coral, red, pale yellow, and white.

Should you deadhead Drift Roses?

Yes, you should deadhead your drift roses to promote growth. After the first major flush of blooms in spring, deadhead the Drift roses, removing the spent flower heads, and cutting back the flowering stems by about one-third their length.

White Drift® Rose Bush

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An Easy to Grow Addition to Any Yard or Garden

Looking for the perfect white rose bush to brighten your yard? The pure White Drift® Rose is sure to entice and awe your neighbors as it adds sparkle to your landscape.

This shrub rose Rosa ‘Meizorland’ is the newest addition to the Drift rose series. It is actually a cross between full size roses and miniatures, they inherited their managed size and repeat blooming nature and toughness on disease resistance. Drift roses are very easy to care for!

The fluffy, cool White Drift Rose Bush features an authentic ground cover growing habit and offers a bright look to any landscape or garden. Its double, icy white blooms will begin flowering in spring and offer a beautiful season-long show of color. Green foliage covers the rose plant all year long for a beautiful evergreen display.

The low, spreading habit of Drift® Roses makes them ideal for small gardens, hillsides, and perennial beds. The miniature rose bush will brighten up an array of borders, fill empty spaces, and spread nicely around your already established plants. We recommend pairing it with the pink flowers of the Sweet Drift Rose for a darling and colorful pairing.

How to Care for Drift Groundcover Roses

The White Drift Rose is best suited for full sun areas and it will adapt to a variety of soil types. Purchase our Rose Soil Mix for the best choice of soil when amending your native soil.

These icy white drift groundcover roses are known to be tough, disease resistant, drought tolerant, and cold hardy. They can grow across the United States in USDA growing zones 5-10 and are very easy to grow. Check out our blog on Winter Care for Roses.

The best time to plant the drift series is in early spring or early fall for the best results. The bright white fully double blooms will cover a large space in your garden in no time. At maturity, this white drift rose bush can grow up to 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide.

Prune drift roses to maintain the desired size and shape, they are fast growing shrubs and will bounce back with vigor. Deadheading spent flower buds to encourage repeat blooms on these ground cover roses. A thick 2 inch layer of mulch across the root system will help to retain moisture when it’s hot outside.

White flower blossoms start opening in mid spring. The rose bush can benefit from adding a slow release fertilizer to the top of the root ball once a year to encourage new growth and colorful blooming. It will also protect against fungal diseases or black spots during the growing season.

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Check out our Rose Grow Guide for information on growing Drift Roses and How to Plant a Rose Bush for info on planting roses. Knock out roses are another great option from Star Roses and Plants.

Botanical Name

Rosa 'Meizorland'

Sunlight Full Sun

Flower Color White

Foliage Color Green

Mature Height 2 ft

Mature Width 3 ft

Growing Zones 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Special Features

Showy flowers
Drought tolerant
Low maintenance
Disease resistant

Shipping Info

Once your White Drift® Rose Bush order is placed, we will ship your plant(s) within seven business days year round unless during the checkout process you request otherwise in the space provided to do so.

Perfect Plants’ shipping specialists carefully package your plants using a proven packaging method that ensures your plants arrive healthy, colorfully alive and ready to flourish. We’ve coined the term ‘upside down box test’ and we do just that; we carefully package so that regardless of the direction your box is handled, it will not harm your precious plant that’s inside.

No shipping process is without a problem from time to time. On rare occasions some plants may experience some of the following during their transit: drooping, minor leaf-loss and/or minimal yellowing/discoloration, minor limb damage, etc. These instances are quite rare, but can happen when shipping plants in boxes.

Plants normally recover within a few weeks after planting. If a damaged box has injured your plant on the inside, please notify us within 5 days of receiving you package(s) by emailing us a photograph of the damage.

We always do our very best to ensure that your plants are packed and shipped in the safest, gentlest and most effective way possible.

Will my plants and trees look like the photographs?

Absolutely! Unlike other online nurseries, our photos are of actual plants and trees we’ve grown here, on our family operated nursery.

Growing our own plants and trees helps to ensure we ship you the best quality plants that are free of pests and diseases.

Your plants and trees may however not ship with flowers on them, like the photographs. This all depends on the time of year you buy your plant or tree. Crape Myrtle trees, for example, only bloom during the summer months, so if you purchase one during the spring or fall, they would ship without flowers. Once planted, your plants will grow and thrive giving you flowers for many years to come!

Pot Sizes

Pot sizes (commonly referred to in gallons) are shipped in the same size nursery trade pots which may vary in actual volume. Some plants may have been at the approximate pot size listed, but require excess dirt to be removed so that you will not be paying any additional shipping costs. This doesn’t happen very often though.

Shipping Fees

Our shipping charges are based on the value of your order. Please use the chart below to see what your shipping charge will be.

Care

The White Drift® Rose Bush does best in full sun or partial shade, too much shade can reduce flower development. Soil should be rich in organic matter. Amending soil by mixing your own soil with a supplemented, enriched soil can help in offering them an ideal growth environment.

Roses tolerate only mild drought, and should be watered regularly especially until established. Roses as a general rule prefer to be watered at their base, such as by a drip system. Frequently wet leaves can lead to a variety of fungal or pest problems.

Pruning is very important to promote densely growing, well producing Roses. Early spring is the optimum pruning time in most areas. Faded flowers can be snipped at any time to encourage repeat bloom (rather than seed) production.

Click here for our more extensive Rose Grow Guide

Planting Instructions

Dig a hole approximately twice as wide as your new plant’s root ball and deep enough so that the top of the root ball is equal with the ground level.

Loosen the root ball using a small garden spade or by hand. Breaking smaller outer roots can encourage growth into the new soil, but take care to not damage large primary roots.

Place the plant in the hole and ensure that it is situated evenly upright. Use the excavated soil to fill in around the root ball, using your foot to pack it in firmly. Thoroughly soak with a hose as you fill in the dirt. Take great care to not leave any gaps or air spaces around the root ball as this could kill the plant.

A 2-4 inch layer of mulch is strongly recommended to help retain moisture and discourage weed growth. Apply mulch over the entire planting area but keep away from the stems or trunk by a few inches. Ensure that the plant and surrounding soil is completely soaked with water.

To ensure the proper nutrients are available for the life of your White Drift® Rose Bush, our proprietary Perfect Plants Special Blend Soil and a once yearly application of Nutricote Total 360 Fertilizer are great considerations for your new plants!

12 reviews for White Drift® Rose Bush

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Anonymous (verified owner) – May 7, 2020

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Very nice! I planted these in large pots and put them at the end of my driveway. I’ve had numerous compliments about them already!

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Anonymous (verified owner) – May 28, 2020

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Constance Teras (verified owner) – June 15, 2020

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My roses are stunning! Big, healthy, full of blooms and buds, nicer than anything I saw locally. Was concerned when they shipped out on a Friday that sitting in a warehouse might harm them, but they couldn’t be better. Will 100% order again.

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Jennifer S. (verified owner) – June 30, 2020

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Roses arrived quickly, well packaged and are beginning to adjust to their new homes!

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- Perfect Plants (store manager) – July 6, 2020
  
  Hi Jennifer, thank you for your review of our White Drift Rose bush. We are so glad you love them :)
Rated 5 out of 5

Sue L. (verified owner) – December 7, 2020

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Lovely plant

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- Perfect Plants (store manager) – December 7, 2020
  
  Hi Sue, thank you so much for reviewing our White Drift Rose shrub. We are glad you love it. Happy planting!
Rated 4 out of 5

John Huston (verified owner) – March 23, 2021

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Deirdre Pacheco (verified owner) – May 18, 2021

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Anonymous (verified owner) – May 24, 2021

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I’ve used Perfect Plants 3x and have been very satisfied with the ordering process and delivery. Will be using them again in the very near future.

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- Perfect Plants (store manager) – May 27, 2021
  
  Thank you so much for your nice feedback on our White Drift Rose bush! Enjoy those beautiful white blooms!
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Pamela Floyd (verified owner) – June 21, 2021

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Catherine Tull (verified owner) – June 24, 2021

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She came crammed sitting in the corner, on top of the one gallon blueberry bushes. No obvious damage, but really wedged in a tiny space. She had a few blooms and even a bit of fragrance, which I didn’t expect but really appreciated. She is very tiny, compared to other one gallon Drift roses I have recently purchased. I put her in a perfect location near some trailing roses. Hopefully, she will perk up and thrive.

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Anonymous (verified owner) – June 30, 2021

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Lots of blooms upon arrival! Thanks

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- Perfect Plants (store manager) – July 6, 2021
  
  Glad to hear your White Drift Rose bush arrived safe and sound!
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Karen F. (verified owner) – July 7, 2021

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