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Digger Dan's Favourite Roses

Here are Digger Dan's favourite roses for specific areas in the garden:

• To wind through sparsely foliaged, deciduous trees: the purple hued charmer Veilchenblau or the 'pillar rose' Moonlight.

• Covering a fence: Alberic Barbier the rampant 'Wellington' rose

• Procumbent (falling over a bank or raised bed): Partridge or Seafoam (not many roses will happily do this)

• Growing up a small (1.5m or less) plant tower in a pot: Try the Flower Carpet roses - white or the original pink - they can be successfully trained in this way.

• Rose hedges: Loose, but pretty: Cardinal Hume, Rosa rugosa 'Blanc Double de Coubert

• Tall attractive shrubs in a border: R. Rugosa 'Fru Dagmar Hartrupp', Felicia, Mutabilis or, the more formal floribunda Iceberg

• Tolerant of light shade and capable of travelling a long way: Madame Alfred Carriere

• Beautiful against brick: the coppery tones of Crepuscule

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