rose [Red Blanket]

rose [Red Blanket] · Pruning

rose [Red Blanket] · Rosa Red Blanket ('Intercell')

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 poor soil and partial shade, suited to low informal hedging

Watering: Deep root watering, allow slight topsoil drying before repeat irrigationSunlight: Full sun · Partial shadeFruit are ornamental - not to be eaten. Wear gloves and other protective equipment when handling

How to Prune rose [Red Blanket]?

Most groundcover roses need only light pruning. Remove dead, diseased and weak shoots; trim excessive growth according to the shrub or spreading type. Shrub types may be pruned as growth resumes in late winter; shorten spreading types after flowering in summer.