Coming up roses

Thanks to ‘healthy rose’ breeding programmes, there’s no need to grow poor-performing plants, as Val explains

- Val

I WAS born in Bend It Like Beckham territory, in Southall, London, and my working-class roots and northern ancestry are partly responsible for me being an organic gardener and an outspoken woman! Grandmother Lucy from Yorkshire, 70 years my senior, taught me how to garden organically because she’d known nothing else.