For those of you living in the UK and indeed most parts of the northern hemisphere January and February are the best months for pruning your roses. A lot is written about pruning and making it all sound very complicated but really it is very easy. I have never worried about the usual cutting at […]
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Loire Valley Visit by Michael Marriott
Our first overseas tour of rose gardens since Covid was a great success, with 30 of us visiting 7 superb and very different gardens in the Loire Valley. It also included a certain amount of eating delicious food and drinking lovely local wines. It was superbly organised by Mary Hember with Anthony Baker making sure […]
Continue readingIn Memoriam: Michael Charlesworth 1940 – 2022
It is with tremendous sadness that we inform you of the death of the Historic Roses Group’s much-loved chairman, Michael Charlesworth. As many of you may know, he had weathered serious illness in the past few years and had been undergoing dialysis for three days every week in hospital. His partner, Johnny Greechan, informed us […]
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