SPECIAL ROSE WEEKEND
Friday 15th, Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th June, 11am to 5pm
£9.00 entrance

(Free entry to HHA members on these days. Telegraph Subscribers offer, Times + Subscriber offer and CPRE offer are all valid during this time).

The gardens are spectacular through spring, summer and autumn but it is in June that the fragrant, colour themed plantings of roses are at their best. A representative from Peter Beales Roses, winners of 19 Chelsea Gold Medals, will be leading walks around the gardens on Friday, Saturday and Sunday giving advice on the growing and care of roses.

Throughout the gardens impressive displays of colour themed roses are interplanted with cream foxgloves, lilies, lavenders and other complementary plants. Pathways are lined with low growing roses mixed with Perovskia and Agapanthus and the mid-Victorian greenhouse is adorned with graceful climbers, as is the front of the Manor.

The Rose Garden, designed and planted in 1990, is an area within the Walled Garden of formally planted roses bordered with box hedges and espaliered pear trees, which are underplanted with roses to create the Rose Walk.

There will be over 90 different varieties of roses on display - including three varieties that are new to Pashley for 2012. The rich, red Peter Beales is a single flowered, scented bush rose which will be in the beds in front of the shop welcoming visitors to the gardens. Dublin Bay, a single flowered, red climbing rose, will be a short distance away - trained up the notice board as you enter the herbaceous borders. Parade, dark pink and double flowered, will be climbing up the obelisks in box hedged Rose Garden. There will also be the opportunity to purchase or order a selection of Peter Beales Roses.

The Gift Shop, well-known for its high quality and diverse range of goods, will be stocked with rose-themed items.