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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Where the Old Roses Grow: Vita Sackville-West and the Battle for Beauty During Wartime

Where the Old Roses Grow: Vita Sackville-West and the Battle for Beauty During Wartime

McCulloch, Janelle

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralGeneral Gardening

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 1914902181
ISBN13: 9781914902185
Publisher: Gemini Adult
Published: Mar 4 2025
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

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 England's gardeners were away fighting on the front. Where the Old Roses Grow tells the extraordinary story of how they did this, while the German bombers were scorching the skies, Hitler was advancing on their lives, and hope was being extinguished, month by month.

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