Perhaps not known for his greenfingers, it seems apt to quote the musician Paul Weller, who in 1978 gave us the great lyric ‘No matter where I roam, I will return to my English rose’. Because no matter how many other garden plants come and go, the popularity of the garden rose never seems to diminish. You might not see many in a Chelsea Flower Show garden but us gardeners know some good plants when we see them and roses regularly top polls for the nation’s favourite flower.
Rosebie Morton knows her Roses
15.06.2023 - 00:25 / blog.theenduringgardener.com
Rosebie Morton knows her RosesI recently had a wonderful day at one of Rosebie Morton’s Rose Days at her farm in a deeply rural part of Hampshire. She is best known as the founder of The Real Flower Company – the company that sends out the loveliest and most indulgent of handmade bouquets of fragrant roses and flowers – all grown on their own farms. Behind that public face is the wholesale business she has evolved to supply the roses, other flowers and foliage for her own company and the wholesale floristry market. The courses are run from her own house and garden next door to the flower farm.
Her story is very inspiring. As a young married woman she looked after the sheep on her husband Matthew’s farm – but small three children made this impractical so she decided to ask for a corner of one of the fields and initially planted 60 well-scented roses that in four years expanded to 300, then 1000 and then field scale – when she took over Matthew’s best wheatfield. It wasn’t entirely plain sailing – the soil is dreadful (she says if she can grow roses anyone can), established growers thought she was mad and her early attempts to deal with the Covent Garden Flower Market were very dispiriting because they cheated her unmercifully. Gradually as her knowledge grew she went directly to florists including Wild at Heart, Jane Packer and Paula Pryke who loved the natural appearance and rich scent of her roses. But she began to realize that the more delicate the rose, the more vulnerable it is to the weather and after a particularly traumatic event when a wedding order for 3000 roses was ruined by rain, the roses went undercover – these days there are 30,000 roses growing in polytunnels (the covers are removed in winter). These
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