Coming up roses

Romance and fun aren’t the words you usually expect to see on a business plan. For Victoria and Barney Martin, however, these words have remained the focus of their work for over a decade. Stokesay Fl

When summer beckons, it is answered by a chorus of glorious roses that fill an enchanting Isle of Wight garden, created from scratch by Derek and Louise Ness

Celebrate the nation’s favourite plant with these Great British Gardens to visit this summer

The path from tiny seedling to brand-new rose was a thorny one for the bloom crowned ‘The King’s Rose’ in 2025. Sharon Amos takes up the story

It took me a while to love roses as a plant. I had always admired the flowers in the kind of knee-jerk way that most of us love sunsets or the song of a blackbird, but I had no feeling for them as pla

ONE of the problems with growing roses—apart from ...