rose 'Fred Loads'

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 - rose cultivation. Tolerant of poor soil and suitable for hedging

Pruning group 16 (roses)

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

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

May be subject to black spot, rose rust, rose powdery mildew and a downy mildew