One of my first jobs was a garden for my parents. The approach, basically inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, consisted in softening the transition between the house and the landscape, and to divide the long, sloping site into different areas or rooms, with a path to the side. Thus, three different gardens were to be created : to the back, a potager with standard fruit trees for my father, a rose garden for my mother, and a resting place near the terrace with a little garden in front. The rose garden contains a combination of old and modern roses, both large- and small-flowered, remontant and non-remontant : new David Austin English roses flourish there, alongside old roses with large flowers, repeat-flowering hybrids, and old and new musk roses. To both sides of the rose garden, an important planting of rugosa roses provides volume. The quirky hedges in the rose garden are aesthetic and functional at the same time : they create structure and mark a path between the roses that allows you access to them for cut flowers. Recently, a contemporary outbuilding has been added.