Otherwise Normal People: Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening ebook
by Aurelia C. Scott
Scott, Aurelia C, Rose breeders, Roses, Rose culture.
Scott, Aurelia C, Rose breeders, Roses, Rose culture. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. inlibrary; printdisabled; ; americana. Clarence's containers - Crazy rose people - Hard pruning - Rose sex - "I've always been, shall we say, competitive" - To spray or not to spray - All for one and one for all - What we do for love - It's showtime - Judgment hour - The heady. scent of history - Rescuing roses with Ruth - Clarence's charges - Rose classification.
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. Результаты поиска по книге. Отзывы - Написать отзыв. Otherwise Normal People: Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening.
Otherwise Normal People book . Aurelia C. Scott lives in Portland, Maine with her husband and a Cape Cod Weeder. She moved to Maine in 1997 from Taos, NM, where she helped start a children’s garden and found a Habitat for Humanity project. Her first non-fiction book, Otherwise Normal People: Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening won the Garden Writers Association Gold Award for Best Book Writing. She has also Aurelia C.
Aurelia Scott trails these self-professed Roseaholics as they plan, prepare, and compete, battling high winds .
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.
Aurelia C. Scott lives in Portland, Maine, where she grows roses and other flowering plants. An excellent glimpse into the world of rose lovers. Enough human interest insight to keep it interesting and far from the documentary that it could have been. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Fine Gardening, Cottage Living, and Yankee, among other publications. I have never planted a rose but will never look at roses the same.
Otherwise Normal People. The great unspoken subtext of Otherwise Normal People is just how many of its exhibitors are retirees. This book delivers almost exactly what the title offers: A sympathetic, perhaps even sentimental, look at the slightly crazy people who organize their lives around rose competitions. Help us to make General-Ebooks better!
Aurelia Scott, author of the book "Otherwise Normal People: Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening" will speak to the Cape Elizabeth Garden Club Tuesday, June 4, at Thomas Memorial Library
Aurelia Scott, author of the book "Otherwise Normal People: Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening" will speak to the Cape Elizabeth Garden Club Tuesday, June 4, at Thomas Memorial Library. The topic is alliums – a gorgeous bulb plant, some varieties of which have been offered in the club's bulb sale each fall and will be offered again this year. Maybe after this program members will have some good ideas on which bulbs should be offered in this fall's bulb sale. The program will begin at 6:30 . with refreshments following. Inside the Obsessive and Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening. Scott, a journalist and rose-grower in Portland, Maine, treks cross-country from her hometown to various sunny spots in California, stopping at the homes of numerous rose experts to find out why the flowers enthrall these cheerful, hardworking, deeply committed people. The rosarians (knowledgeable growers of roses) she meets are mostly male and mostly well-off-they need to be able to afford the space and paraphernalia necessary to keep the flowers flourishing.
With all the appeal of Word Freak, Otherwise Normal People celebrates the singular satisfaction of cultivating beauty-and, of course, the thrill of victory.