Booklet  (2008)  
 
An Information List of all Varieties. p6
1979. Snow Carpet - Maccarpe. Nicknamed Carpet

Book  (1999)  Page(s) 88.  
 
Eric Trimper, South Australia. Snow Carpet. Miniature, looks superb if used over rocks or raised beds where it can cascade down. My son, Kelvin grew it on a 800mm stake and it looked gorgeous with its tiny pure white flowers and its tiny leaves, although only flowers once it’s a gem.

Website/Catalog  (23 Oct 1998)  Page(s) 8.  
 
Snow Carpet Ground Cover Rose... Pure white small double flowers. McGredy 1980.

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 557.  
 
Snow Carpet® Miniature, white, 1980, (MACcarpe; 'Blanche Neige') 'New Penny' x 'Temple Bells'; McGredy, S., IV. Description.

Book  (1991)  Page(s) 16.  
 
Snow Carpet another constant-flowering ground-cover rose...

Book  (1989)  
 
p35. Anne Elliott. Roses in Dry North Canterbury.
Growing Snow Carpet on a flat area didn't display it to best advantage, so I placed old logs near the base of the rose and it has now climbed over them and forms a mount of "snow". It looks very effective too.

p57. Barry Eagle. Growing Miniature Roses in Containers.
The best cultivars for hanging baskets are those which spill over the edges. Some, like Snow Carpet and 'Nozomi', will grow trailing shoots over the edges of the container.

p68. John Martin. shrub Roses Old and New
Snow Carpet a dense, ground hugging creeper, up to one metre with miniature leaves and creamy-white flowers, mainly in early summer. Do not prune. Miniature and R. wichuraiana origins.

Book  (1988)  Includes photo(s).
 
p68 [photo] Snow Carpet McGredy 1980. ‘New Penny’ x ‘Temple Bells’. A breakthrough in groundcover roses. Creamy white flowers of rosette form cover a vigorous sprawling plant which has dainty foliage. The repeat is not good but the spring show is spectacular.

p66 ‘Angelita’ McGredy 1982. ‘Moana’ x ‘Snow Carpet’. Creamy white rosette… Has a good repeat in autumn that is missing in Snow Carpet and the bloom is a little larger. Doesn’t spread quite as far as ‘Snow Carpet’.

p91 Photo. Snow Carpet

p119. Sam realised the possibility of miniature groundcover roses like Snow Carpet when he was in Portland, Oregon and saw a weeping rose covered in tiny white flowers that cascaded 3m down a wall. Called ‘Temple Bells’, it was bred by Denny Morey of Jackson and Perkins but nobody grew it for sale. He managed to get a plant and took it back to Ireland where he ‘crossed it with everything’. In his hurried shift he picked about 10 of the best-looking plant types out of an Irish paddock and transferred them to New Zealand. One was the miniature which became ‘Snow Carpet’ (‘New Penny’ x ‘Temple Bells’). ‘Snow Carpet’ gives a marvellous display of tiny white flowers in early summer but doesn’t repeat freely. He considers it the first step on the way to something new in roses but a difficult step because it won’t set seed. Few of the flowers have viable pollen producing stamens and the resultant seedlings are hard to raise.

Book  (1986)  Page(s) 29.  
 
One year I noticed a most unusual weeper in the magnificent rose gardens of Portland, Oregon. It was planted at the top of a wall, cascading down some three metres and covered in tiny white flowers. I thought to myself there has to be something I can do with that. Nobody grew it for sale, only the curator Stu Mechlin could tell me anything about it. It was by Denny Morey when he was Jackson & Perkins hybridist in California. He named it 'Temple Bells'. I needed that badly, and brought it back to Ireland. It's a crazy rose, as no matter how hard I tried to get it to grow up in the air it always contrived to get back down and crawl along the ground. And it grew everywhere, reminding me of a movie I saw long ago of a world invaded by plants which crawled in through the crevices smothering everybody and everything. 'Temple Bells' sets seed easily. I crossed it with everything - H.T.'s, floribundas, climbers and miniatures. None of the resulting seedlings flowered in their first year, which meant they would only be once-flowering even after they settled down. Even those that did flower in the second year were not very free. But, and it was a big but, a lot of the plant types looked interesting. Quite a few crawled along the ground, and the miniature crosses had beautiful foliage and a compact habit as well. Anyone who has.ever moved from the land of their birth will know it is a pretty traumatic experience. Just about that time I was in the throes of moving my children to New Zealand, away from the shenanigans of Northern Ireland. My mind wasn't really on rose-breeding. I picked about ten of the nicest looking plant types out of the Irish paddock and transferred them to Levin in New Zealand. Heaven knows what I left behind. Anyway, one of the ten was good enough to be marketed as Snow Carpet. Niels Poulsen proved to me that it is a real ground-cover rose. He walked all over his plants last year while I was with him in Denmark. The next day, there was no trace of his rough treatment. 'Snow Carpet' is the first step on the way to something new in roses. Herb Swim once told me I should be happy to make the first step, and not to be too disappointed if someone else was lucky enough to make the next big jump forward. I'll have to wait and see.
Snow Carpet. Ground Cover. Raised by Sam McGredy, New Zealand in 1980. Bred from 'New Penny' x 'Temple Bells'. The first true compact ground-cover rose covering roughly one square metre.

Website/Catalog  (1986)  Page(s) 39.  
 
Snow Carpet* (Procumbent rose) Glossy foliage on long, thin, creeping shoots creating a dense carpet.  Flowers attractively double, creamy-white. 1980. Shade tolerant. G. (R) 1 x 3’. 

Book  (1985)  Page(s) 112.  
 
Snow Carpet. MACcarpe. McGredy 1980. 'New Penny' x 'Temple Bells'. This groundcover rose forms a mound of informal creamy white flowers in spring. Sometimes this variety will sulk when first transplanted, and will take a while to get going.