What kind of rose is this in a round flower bed?

[NewspaperTaxis]

A neighbour has a round flower bed similar to ours, and I'd like the same sort of rose they have in it, maybe with a different colour, but I can't get the hang of it. It doesn't seem to grow like a shrub rose, it's sprawling. I'd like one similar but I have poor form when it comes to picking roses, and I've never got the hang of the difference between shrub and bush roses. It seems to be just one rose planted there.

The rose of course doesn't look like that now, the photo was taken a while ago later on in the year - I did post on Mumsnet about it but the thread seems to have vanished.

Acco to Google, it’s a a crape myrtle not a rose, it’s a deciduous shrub , can also be a small tree, and produces. flowers from summer to autumn, and grows in any type of soil.

Don't know that there really is a clear definition. If I wanted a rose that was like another rose that I was familiar with I'd choose it on the description. Here's your thread!
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/gardening/5370874-whats-the-difference-between-shrub-roses-and-bush-roses

I can't see too clearly but Flower Carpet roses have that low sprawling habit. They come in various colours. I have had Amber Flower Carpet, it is an excellent free flowering rose.

Could be a polyantha type. Look up ground cover or carpet roses.

It’s not a rose!

Ha ha! That is one of my threads about roses, but not the actual one I had in mind - which came with the very same photo attached on this one!

Can anyone raise @Allseeingallknowing 's bombshell observation that this is not a rose?!

It’s not an observation, it’s Google lens!

@NewspaperTaxis could you ask the neighbour?

Internet plant recognition is notoriously shit. I think it's a rose. Also from that pic google would be unable to analyse anything useful like leaf shape.
It's a rose.

That looks just like my flower carpet rose. It’s a fantastic worker in my garden and just blooms its heart out all summer long. Even if it’s not that, I love mine and would recommend.

'Flower carpet rose'! What's that when it's at home?!

Does David Austin do such a thing? I don't think they mention it.

I will also look up crape myrtle!

I agree it looks like a rose, I have one in my garden. I don't know which one, as it's been here longer than I have, but it looks like this

https://www.gardeningexpress.co.uk/r11315-rose-flower-carpet-pink?ff=11&fp=13409&tmsrc=googlead&tmcid=23498715033&tmsid=&tmid=&tmkw=&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23508475147&gbraid=0AAAAABgPs9xs9EFzDHJQRkMcGUjTnR0wg&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxJe3rpKbkwMVdphQBh0ngCGkEAQYASABEgImV_D_BwE

It is totally absolutely completely blindingly obviously a rose. Google lens is talking out of its tiny digital arse.

😁

@NewspaperTaxis Could be 'Carpet Pink' from Harkness Roses.

@Yamadori is one of the gardening board's experts. If she says it's a rose, it's a rose. 🤨

I think it is a flower carpet rose. I inherited one in the garden in a pot. It was still flowering at Christmas and has a new bud forming I noticed. I think I might want another now I’ve thought about it..

You are too kind!😂😊

By the way OP, judging by the spread of it there maybe several of them in the one big bed.