The roses in our garden are late-blooming this year so I've been searching my photo archive from last year's visit to Haddon Hall. Climbing up against the stonework of the house and rambling over mossy walls of the terraced gardens were some beauties.
In the local park the first roses are beginning to bloom in the rose garden in front of the library.....
and we've just noticed that the buds on one of our own rose bushes, Joie de Vivre, starting
to open.
