Hopton Hall opens its grounds twice a year - in early Spring for snowdrops, and July for roses. This year I was waiting impatiently for the dates to slip by because generally everything in my garden was flowering early due to the warm weather, and I was worried the roses would have flowered and finished before Hopton opened its gates.
I needn't have worried though. The people at Hopton obviously know their roses well for when I visited at the beginning of July they in full flower with plenty of buds still to open.
Short hedges and tall conifers give shape and structure to the garden, and the roses in their many colours flower exuberantly within their 'compartments'.
These marvelous scented deep pinks were my favourite - Guy Savoy - but every bed had something new and delightful in it.
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