Date: 30.Nov 2021 13:58:34
PL ANT INSPIRATION ROSES
Simply the best If you’re looking for a new rose for your garden, why not choose a winner? Here, we celebrate three award-winning roses, and four of our current favourites
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very year, experts and breeders choose their ‘Rose of the Year’ and these roses have to be very special to make the grade. In recent years, there’s been a trend for soft apricot tones and light, fresh scents – a versatile combination. Once established, keep your new plant looking its best with specialist rose feed sprinkled around the base in spring and mid-summer, a thick mulch of compost in autumn to suppress weeds, and regular dead-heading of faded flowers. This should keep your roses flowering beautifully. 20/BEAUTIFUL GARDENS
WORTH Y WI N N ER S
It’s A Wonderful Life The Rose of the Year for 2022 has frothy peach-pink blooms that keep appearing for many weeks. The judges loved its upright shape, its delicate scent, and its long-lasting flowers – ideal for romantic mixed borders and summer patio containers. H: 1m Belle de Jour The 2021 Rose of the Year brings a ray of sunshine to borders and patio pots, with its frilled golden-yellow petals and intense fruity-vanilla fragrance. The long-lasting blooms make fantastic cut flowers, and it can even be grown as a low hedge. H: 1.2m
ROSE OF THE YEAR
2022
Sweet Honey In a tough year, the 2020 Rose of the Year was a welcome highlight. A classic double bloom in mellow apricot, it has strong, bushy growth and an appealing fruity fragrance. Perfect for containers, hedging, borders and cut flowers. H: 1m
ROSE OF THE YEAR
2021
ROSE OF THE YEAR
2020
