Hopton Hall is opening its rose garden to visitors this summer. Catherine Roth meets estate manager Spencer Tallis and discovers one of Derbyshire’s not-to-be-missed gardens.
A ROSE GARDEN epitomises warm sunny days with colourful blooms and heady scents and Hopton Hall’s terraced rose garden promises all this and more. Yet despite the hall being steeped in centuries of history, its rose garden, like the rest of the grounds, is much more recent…