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Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening
Algonquin Books
May 2007
On Sale: May 18, 2007
235 pages
ISBN: 1565124642
EAN: 9781565124646
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Twice a year America's rose lovers cut the prettiest
blossoms off their best plants and travel to the national
rose show, where they lovingly groom their precious blooms
for hours in a frigid hall in order to contend for the
highest honor: the Queen of Show. Doctors. Teachers. Sheet
metal mechanics. Lawyers. Truck drivers. Men and women.
These are type A gardeners, and for them this is a blood
sport. They grow tender roses in the frigid North and
disease prone roses in the humid South simply for the
challenge. They decorate otherwise lovely yards with paper
bags and panty hose to isolate their choice specimens. They
traipse through overgrown fields in the worst weather to
save antique roses from extinction. Aurelia Scott trails these self-professed Roseaholics as
they plan, prepare, and compete, battling high winds,
Japanese beetles, and the finicky demands of their precious
charges. With all the appeal of Word Freak, Otherwise Normal
People celebrates the singular satisfaction of cultivating
beauty—and, of course, the thrill of victory.
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