Download pdf Otherwise Normal People : Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening
Download pdf Otherwise Normal People : Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening
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Author: Aurelia C Scott
Number of Pages: 232 pages
Published Date: 18 May 2007
Publisher: ALGONQUIN BOOKS OF CHAPEL HILL
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781565124646
File Name: Otherwise.Normal.People.Inside.the.Thorny.World.of.Competitive.Rose.Gardening.pdf
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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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Otherwise Normal People : Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening by Aurelia C Scott
Author: Aurelia C Scott
Number of Pages: 232 pages
Published Date: 18 May 2007
Publisher: ALGONQUIN BOOKS OF CHAPEL HILL
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781565124646
File Name: Otherwise.Normal.People.Inside.the.Thorny.World.of.Competitive.Rose.Gardening.pdf
Download Link: Otherwise Normal People Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening
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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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