Twiggy will be visiting BBC Gardeners’ World Live at The NEC on Thursday 11 June for the official naming of ‘Twiggy’s Rose’. Roses UK, representing British Rose Breeders and Growers and Harkness Roses are delighted to name this brand new rose for Twiggy in celebration of her 60th birthday. The naming ceremony will take place in the RHS Floral Marquee sponsored by Renault at 2.30pm.

"I was delighted and honoured when Marilyn at Roses UK contacted me proposing to name a rose after me for my birthday later this year.  I adore roses, especially fragrant ones and have some beauties in my garden. It was great fun to help choose the colour, shape and fragrance and I’m very much looking forward to ‘meeting’ my rose next week."   - Twiggy

‘Twiggy’s Rose’ which is bred by Harkness Roses, is a robust, well-branched bush rose, technically a floribunda, which simply means that it carries its flowers in clusters of blooms per stem. These are clusters to reckon with, they often form massive canopies of blooms, as many as two dozen per branch was not unusual during trials of the rose. The branches are stiff and sturdy, well capable of bearing the weight of such a vast crop of blooms.

The flowers of ‘Twiggy’s Rose’ are a real curiosity. The curiosity is not in the colour, which is light apricot, deepening to a richer shade in late season as light intensity diminishes; nor in the perfume, which is a fresh honey-based aroma carrying a piquante edge. The curiosity is in the difference between the summer and autumn blooms. The summer blooms are double, ruffled and rounded, usually containing around 30 petals. They are perfectly suited to cottage-garden situations, although this really is not a ‘retro-style’ bloom. It is as much at home in modern company as it is with roses in the nostalgic vein. Surprisingly, typical autumn blooms are semi-double, they contain about half the quantity of petals compared with the summer flowers, and they open wide to reveal golden stamens. The reason for the difference isn’t known; nevertheless it’s fun to have two different-looking roses for the price of one.

Where can a girl go to get a brand new look without spending a penny?

TWIGGY'S FROCK EXCHANGE is a new 3 part series for BBC2 which taps into the latest trend for clothes swapping parties.  So many of us have wardrobes full of decent clobber that we never wear so what better than to get rid of the old stuff and replace it with new, all for free?

In the age of disposable style and the credit crunch there is a growing desire to spend less and ease our environmental consciences whilst still having fun with fashion.   

From Primark to Prada, vintage to Versace, each week Twiggy and her team of experts will host a party inviting celebrities and up to a hundred women to swap clothes and accessories with each other. Partygoers will get fashion advice to help them make the perfect swap as well as the best styling, hair and make-up to ensure they leave looking and feeling a million dollars.

Part event, part factual, TWIGGY'S FROCK EXCHANGE is every girl’s dream show packed full of beautiful clothes, amazing transformations, human interest stories, gorgeous information rich VTs and a practical guide to styling and customising clothes across all ages and bodyshapes.

Join Twiggy from Tuesday 7th October on BBC Two when she'll be teaming up with Lauren Laverne to host a series of clothes swapping parties.

When we reach our forties, something changes. Suddenly nothing – hair, skin, body shape – looks quite the way it used to. And it’s a myth to think that by using Botox, working out religiously and wearing skinny jeans you’re going to fool people into thinking you’re thirty. Nothing can stop the ageing process. But that doesn’t mean that you have to start wearing a twin set, cutting your hair and donning sensible shoes. You can find a new kind of beauty and a new way of being confident – why shouldn’t forty, fifty or sixty be as beautiful as twenty or thirty in a different way? Twiggy is as beautiful in her fifties as she was in her twenties, and has maintained her style and fabulousness without the aid of any plastic surgery. Women everywhere look at her as a role model and think ‘Maybe I can look like that’. And now, with this practical guide containing hundreds of tips, you can...

TWIGGY'S NEW BOOK A GUIDE TO LOOKING AND FEELING FABULOUS OVER FORTY IS PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN BOOKS ON SEPTEMBER 25th, 2008

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BOOK SIGNINGS...
Come and meet Twiggy and have your copy of 'A Guide To Looking And Feeling Fabulous Over Forty' personally signed.

FRIDAY - SEPTEMBER 26th, 2008
WHSmith - Manchester @ 5pm

SATURDAY - SEPTEMBER 27th, 2008
WHSmith - Newcastle @ 2pm

TUESDAY - SEPTEMBER 30th, 2008
Marks And Spencer - Camberley @ 12:30pm

SATURDAY - OCTOBER 4th. 2008
Marks And Spencer - Bluewater

WEDNESDAY - OCTOBER 22nd. 2008
Waterstones - Basingstoke @ 6pm

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