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Peace is one of the six roses that feature on the set of porcelain introduced under the name of Harry Wheatcroft and was made for Harry...

Burwell, which has been my home since 2017, is large village in Cambridgeshire that is close to Newmarket, and is where I have my...

Though we have the Pemberton rose, Robin Hood, we don't have his rose, Maid Marion, or any of the roses named Little John. There is no a...

the 1982 Rose of the Year, Mountbatten is a floribunda rose that was named in memory of the great uncle and godfather of King Charles the...

In 2012 Colin Dickson introduced a new rose, Yorkshire Princess, is memory of H.R.H. Princess Mary of Harewood, who was known as the...

My Dad used to grow Geraniums to sell at our local church fete at St Augustine's in Cambridge. He would grown them in one of his...

Known for his flamboyant dress sense and personality, Harry Wheatcroft originally ran with his brother a rose nursery near Nottingham and...

When Histon's amateur rose breeder George Northfield found himself without any boxes to plant his new rose seedlings in, he went into a...

Newmarket is just up the road from us, so we were keen to plant in our garden the patio rose named after its famous July Race Course, It...

Whether the Colin Horner rose, Hole in One is named after the golfing term or not I am not sure. But it probably is as it's breeder's...

Another rose that I would to have but there is little chance of me doing so, is the freshly named Colin Dickson privately named rose,...

One June 22, 2019 the Fordham and District Garden Club had an outing to the childhood home of Anne Boleyn, who was the 2nd wife of Henry...