sthall Manor, the impossibly romantic Grade II listed Cotswold property that was formerly home to the Mitford sisters, is adorned with over 150 different varieties of rose. Asthall’s owner, Rosie Pearson, had longed for a ‘house cloaked in roses’ and called upon garden designers Isabel and Julian Bannerman to ‘work their magic’ on the forlorn house and gardens she purchased in 1997. Soon there was an array of roses, each one meticulously pruned, tied-in and trained by then head gardener Mark Edwards, using an innovative Asthall method. Conventional straight lines did not
