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Where the Old Roses Grow: Vita Sackville-West and the Battle for Beauty during Wartime (Hardback)
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Where the Old Roses Grow: Vita Sackville-West and the Battle for Beauty during Wartime (Hardback)

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Published: 19/09/2024
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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.

This is a tale of gardens and roses in wartime, and of fortitude and tenacity in the face of great loss and pain, but it is also a story of hope. It celebrates the achievements of an inspired group of rose lovers, who saved Britain’s favourite flower, so it could survive and bloom for future generations.

Publisher: Gemini Books Group Ltd
ISBN: 9781914902185
Number of pages: 208
Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

'Engaging' - The English Garden magazine

'Expertly conjures the rare and beguiling charm of blooms that were nearly lost to history.' - Melissa Mabbitt, RHS The Garden magazine

'Captivating. Wholly original and moving. ' - Daily Mail

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“Roses, beauty and obsession”

A lovely, non-fiction book on the importance of gardens and beauty, even in times of war. It’s an account of collectors of old roses, the “roses of poetry and song” as Constance Spry called them, and their obsession... More

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