rose [Gertrude Jekyll]

Very popular, versatile rose. 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. Can be grown as a short climber to 2.4m and suitable for hedging

Pruning group 16 (roses)

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

May be susceptible to pests such as rose aphid, rose leafhopper, glasshouse red spider mite, scale insects, caterpillars, large rose sawfly and rose leaf-rolling sawfly. Deer and rabbits can cause damage

May be susceptible to black spot, rose rust and rose powdery mildew