ROSES grown at a nursery in Pickering have been donated to new place of remembrance in London.

R V Roger has provided 24 roses, 12 named Flanders Field, grown by Heather Horner, and another 12 named Tommy’s Rose, grown by Ronnie Rawlins for the Flanders Field Memorial Garden.

Until the introduction of the poppy in the early 1920s, the rose was considered to be the flower of remembrance.

The garden, located at Wellington Barracks, in London, the home of the Guards Regiments, was formally opened by the Queen, who was accompanied by Prince Phillip, Prince William and King Philippe of Belgium.

A main circular bed contains 70 sandbags of soil collected by French schoolchildren from the cemeteries of the Flanders battlefields sites.

The John McCrae poem In Flanders Fields is engraved on the outside edge of the Memorial which is adjacent to the Guards Museum.

Ian Roger, owner of R V Roger, said: “We delivered the roses a couple of weeks ago and I am delighted to have my company associated with such a worthwhile and poignant project.”