Capable of astonishing size, the flowers achieve elegance and charm that should establish ‘East Park’ as a firm favourite. All the crucial qualities for successful rose-gardening are present in this rose: it has rich perfume, reliable repeat-blooming, and high tolerance of disease.

East Park is a long-established Glasgow charity providing education, care and respite to children with a range of additional support needs including autism. The rose was commissioned to celebrate the opening of a new £4m school made possible by the many legacies received over the past 20 years and the generosity of more than 150 benefactors and donors. Sales of the rose will help East Park continue its work. Charity No. SCO 12838.

An English icon such as Twiggy deserves a suitably timeless rose, which is indeed a challenge; but ‘Twiggy’s Rose’ does everything, then a bit more, to rise to the occasion.

‘Twiggy’s Rose’ is magnificently bushy, immaculate in its style of growth. Flowering in elegant clusters begins in early June, and is practically continual until the start of winter.

Added to that, ‘Twiggy’s Rose’ is as pretty as a picture, and has pleasing scent into the bargain. It’s a ‘must’ for general planting in beds, groups and hedges; excellent for mixing in summer borders; and delightful to cut for the vase.

To bring back the joy of roses, look no further than ‘Easy Does It’. Already winning hearts and minds far and wide in the rose-world, ‘Easy Does It’ is making a name for itself in the U.S.A., Australia, South Africa and Japan. It’s easy to sum up why ‘Easy Does It’ is off to such a flying start: tolerance of black-spot is the main reason - though not the only one.

There are other roses that resist black-spot, but usually they sacrifice beauty for functionality, leaving them plain, and short of personality. But ‘Easy Does It’ has personality to spare, its blooms could illustrate a saga of fiesta and celebration. ‘Easy Does It’ has beautiful large, flamboyant, frilly blooms, and masses of them. They are a cascade of colour starting in scarlet, then moving through a sequence of orange, apricot, raspberry and finally, just before the bloom finishes, light pink. It is a sight to behold, and on top of that, flowering goes on through the season; given the basics of food and water there is hardly a pause.

The name ‘Easy Does It’ was chosen by Weeks’ Roses in California who distribute the rose in the USA. Weeks’ decided to add it to their range ‘Easy to Love’, a collection of the roses that are easiest to grow. ‘Easy Does It’ joins two other Harkness roses in that collection, ‘Easy Going’ and ‘Livin’ Easy’ (aka Fellowship).