When Chris Warner moved into his first marital home in a little maisonette in urban Halesowen in 1963, with just a square foot of soil by the front entrance, he wanted to give his wife Barbara the classic 'roses round the door' that she'd always dreamed of. Little could the then PE teacher have known that his idealistic little gesture would ultimately lead him to become one of the UK's most prolific breeders of roses, an international award winner, and with around 35 of his varieties having made it into commercial production Jackie MacCarick reports. But that first rose bush he planted - the golden-yellow rambler Emily Gray - proved to be the spark that lit his endless fascination, curiosity and sheer passion for England's national flower.
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