Spong - is that you?

There is a golden rule, if you are after a certain plant and you find certain plant, buy it when you see it. If you do not then you will regret it: usually immediately you have left the vicinity far enough from when there was a chance you could have nipped back and rectifed this error.

One such regret was the Rose Spong. I first heard of this delightfully named rose from a tweet by Roses UK, the British Association of Rose Breeders. Now a ...