Roses, in my garden at least, are now at their best. Over the last 10 years, I have created a slightly mad garden over about five acres. At its heart is a rose garden. It is the part of the garden I started first.
I followed the traditional advice. I neatly dug and stacked clods of turf and grass side to side and dug manure deep into our rich, heavy clay. If I were to do it again, I would do it all completely differently, but at the time the traditional advice seemed to be a good place to start.
