Award-winning garden designer Jo Thompson (jothompson-garden-design.co.uk) loves roses, pairing them with carefully chosen underplanting. She’s a fan of soft-toned palettes, noting that “pastels are so easy on the eye; you can almost touch the atmosphere of nostalgia.” For more modern appeal, she looks to sherbet shades, pairing the likes of Rosa ‘Buff Beauty’ with lemon ‘Ivory Castle’, damask ‘Helen Johnson’ and opal x ‘Lace Time’.
