rose [Magic Carpet]

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

Pruning group 16 (roses)

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

May be susceptible to aphids, rose leafhopper, glasshouse red spider mite, scale insects, caterpillars, large rose sawfly and rose leaf-rolling sawfly. Rabbits and deer can cause damage

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