Revamping the garden? Here's why hunting down shrub roses is worth the trouble
The ‘Souvenir du Docteur Jamain’ rose was rescued from a derelict nursery Credit: Gap Gardens Shopping for plants is one of my core horticultural skills. I have been putting this retail expertise into practice recently by ordering bare-root roses for a revamp of my tired, geranium-fixated London front garden. Given the fact I have just published a book about Sissinghurst, perhaps it was only natural that I should be drawn to the “old” shrub roses that Vita Sackville-West championed. She ventured that the petals “recall the brocades of ecclesiastical vestments, the glow of mosaics, t...
Source: telegraph.co.uk