It was a great pleasure to welcome Carol Klein and the team from Gardeners World here to film some material for an episode which is due to be aired on Friday 3rd August.  They arrived with all their equipment, bright and early, to film in brilliant sunshine all day!  Now what were the chances of that?

Remarkably the roses, though battered by the savage prevailing westerly wind in recent weeks, were still showing plenty of colour for the cameras.  All being well the garden will look good on the television but do tune in on the 3rd August and have a look for yourself…