Volunteer gardening session Saturday 7th September, 10am – noon

We’ll be meeting in the Rose Garden for a final tidy-up before the Autumn, The new roses we planted earlier in the year have bedded in well and many gave spectacular blooms – hopefully they’ll winter well and bloom even more vigorously next year.

Thanks to everyone who has helped with the rose garden over past months, it’s looking so much more loved (although there’s still lots of work to do).

Here are photographs of two of our roses.

The rose with the open pink and white flower is Ballerina. As you can see it produces large sprays of delicate flowers. It is bee-friendly.

Bonica is a rose that Friends have introduced to the garden, largely because it was described in the catalogues as vigorous, long-flowering and ‘superbly healthy’. The colour – pink, with a hint of lilac – and flower are really rather lovely.