Women in My Rose Garden
Since the dawn of time, the rose has been a symbol of love, its beauty celebrated by poets, its essential oil prized for its unique fragrance and healing balm. It has also been the tradition for rose breeders to name their roses after extraordinary women.
Many of our best-loved heritage roses are named after women and in this charming volume, Ann explores the lives and stories behind 35 of the evocative names.
Among the women in Ann’s book are serene queens, duchesses and aristocrats, courageous heroines and pioneers, as well as the passionate gardeners who contributed much to the cultivation and preservation of the roses named for each one.
“The women who made it into my book are not only worthy of a place in any garden but they all have fascinating, important and world-changing stories to tell.”
“This is a different kind of history which comes alive in our gardens.”
For over 20 years, while Ann worked in the garden at Trinity Farm, Otaki she wondered about the men and women named in those roses. When Lloyd, her husband, finally called her bluff Ann set out researching and this proved to be an amazing adventure, over many years, which we will read about.