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Podcast: HortWeek Podcast
Episode: A rose to remember 18th century Welsh black gardener, John Ystumllyn
Description: We Too Built Britain's Zehra Zaidi and Harkness Roses' David White have launched the John Ystumllyn rose, named after the first well-recorded black Welsh gardener and believed to be the first rose named after an ethnic minority Briton.Horticulture Week editor Matthew Appleby interviews the pair about the new rose and it's potential impact. Zaidi’s Horticulture Week article in July 2020 on John Ystumllyn created a groundswell of support for a new rose. Horticulture Week advised on finding a rose grower and in helping promote the project.Ystumllyn was an 18th centiry...