rose [Perennial Blue]

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, apply the fertiliser again in early Summer - see rose cultivation. Tolerant of poorer soils

Propagate by softwood cuttings in early to mid-Spring, hardwood cuttings in late Summer to Autumn or by chip budding in Summer

May be susceptible to aphids, caterpillars, deer, glasshouse red spider mite, leafhoppers, rabbits, rose leaf-rolling sawfly, scale insects

Generally disease-free but may be susceptible to rose rust, rose powdery mildew, downy mildew