rose 'Constance Spry'

Grow in full sun with fertile, humus-rich, moist but well-drained soil. For best flowering apply a balanced fertiliser and mulch in late winter or early spring and a balanced fertiliser again in early summer - see rose cultivation. Tolerant of shade. Useful as a pillar rose and for training on a frame or obelisk, suitable for hedging

Pruning group 17 (roses) if grown as a shrub or Pruning group 20 (roses) as a climber

Propagate by hardwood cuttings in autumn or by chip budding in summer

Aphids, rose leafhopper, glasshouse red spider mite, scale insects, caterpillars, large rose sawfly and rose leaf-rolling sawfly may be a problem. Deer and rabbits can cause damage

May be affected by black spot, rose rust, rose powdery mildew and a downy mildew