As promised – and be careful what you wish for in future – a grand gallery of roses captured yesterday in the riot of colour that is the Bowes Lyon Rose Garden at RHS Wisley in Surrey. The newer of two rose gardens, this features wide, broad and ascending (or descending) paths with generous steps, pools of oval lawns, lush perennial planting with shrubs (especially the Cornus), Sambucus, Cotinus, Willows and plenty of grasses – the Stipa gigantea will have […]

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