Amateur Gardening

The garden of roses

IT’S been said that ‘roses grow on you’, and this is certainly the case in the Cotswolds garden that Robert Moore shares with his wife Sheila.

From climbers scaling the walls of the house and ramblers clambering over the log store to shrub roses in the flower and central island beds, this is a garden that smells as good as it looks.

And it’s true to say that this colourful plot is not

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