Published to coincide with the Chelsea Flower Show, this sourcebook and guide lists which roses to use where, what to plant with roses and how to design and plant a rose garden. A history and celebration of rose gardens from the earliest times thorugh the late 18th century when the Empress Josephine created the first garden made exclusively for roses at Malmaison near Paris and on to gardens of the present day in Euope, the USA, Australia and New Zealand, the author charts the changing fashions which determine how roses are used by gardeners and suggests ideas for formal and informal designs. Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall is a garden designer and consultant who has won three wards for gardens at the Cheleas Flower Show.
- ISBN10 0701133449
- ISBN13 9780701133443
- Publish Date 22 May 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Chatto & Windus
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 202
- Language English