Where the Old Roses Grow - Janelle McCulloch

During the Second World War and in the decades after it, a group of rose lovers, including the writer and gardener Vita Sackville-West, the florist Constance Spry, and the horticulturist Graham Stuart Thomas, realised that heritage roses were becoming endangered.Fearing for their future, these rosarians began collecting rare, old roses to save them from dying out while EnglandÂ’s gardeners were away fighting on the front. Where the Old Roses Grow tells the extraordinary story of how they did this,... Zobrazit více