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Products > Rosa 'Sea Foam'   Rosa 'Sea Foam' - Groundcover Rose     [2nd Image] Habit and Cultural Information Category: Shrub Family: Rosaceae (Roses) Origin: Garden Origin Evergreen: Yes Flower Color: White Bloomtime: Year-round Parentage: (R.'White Dawn' x R.'Pinocchio') Height: 1-2 feet Width: 3-4 feet Exposure: Full Sun Irrigation (H2O Info): Medium Water Needs Winter Hardiness: < 0 °F Rosa 'Sea Foam' (Groundcover Rose) - A trailing reblooming shrub rose that can be used as a groundcover or cascaded over a wall. It grows to 2 ½ feet tall and spreads to 4 to 5 feet wide with glossy deep green foliage and lightly fragrant double white flowers, occasionally with a blush of pink, that bloom throughout the year in coastal southern California. Plant in full sun with occasional to regular irrigation. It is hardy well below 0°F and useful in USDA Zones 5-11 and some say it can also be grown in Zone 4 and for us it is evergreen! This is a very tough and hardy rose with its small, very glossy leaves providing a perfect foil for the flowers, much like a foam on the edge of a ocean wave. 'Sea Foam' was bred by E. W. Schwartz and introduced by Conrad-Pyle (Star Roses). The parentage of this rose is unusual as it involves the crossing of two hybrids that themselves were the result of crossing the same two roses; White Dawn x Pinocchio x White Dawn x Pinocchio crossed with White Dawn x Pinocchio. Winner of the Rome Gold Medal in 1963 and the American Rose Society David Fuerstenberg Prize in 1968. We began growing this very nice and useful growudcover rose in 1993.  The information about Rosa 'Sea Foam' displayed on this page is based on research conducted in our nursery library and from online sources we consider reliable. We will also relate those observations made of this plant as it grows in our nursery gardens and in other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments we receive from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has additional information, particularly when they share cultural information that would aid others in growing it.     [MORE INFO]