Desig House: Gardeners' favourite roses

Picking a rose for your garden can be a fiendishly difficult task. Most of us have limited space and therefore have to be selective. To complicate matters, everyone's idea of a perfect rose differs - some like delicate pink blooms with a classic old rose fragrance, while others prefer a dusky Tudor-like flower with a heady myrrh scent. Should you choose a rambler or climbing rose to romp over a wall or fence? Or a classic rose bush to sit in your border? To help you choose we've asked the experts, gardeners and garden designers who have seen every variety of rose under the sun, to pick their absolute favourites…