The making of emma’s rose

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

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

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

When your home has the kind of timeless country charm that comes complete with a honey-coloured stone façade, the temptation might be to pair it with a quintessentially English cottage garden. But the

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

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