enior gardener Michael Harvey oversees the famous walled rose garden at Mottisfont in Hampshire. It houses varieties of rose that may otherwise have become extinct, as well as the National Collection of Pre-1900 Old-Fashioned Roses, which flower for only a few weeks in June. Among the 500 varieties here are ‘Souvenir de la Malmaison’, inspired by the Empress Joséphine’s garden of the same name, and ‘Quatre Saisons’, an autumn damask grown by the
