June is almost over but before it ends take some time to stop and smell the roses. June is national rose month! Since I hail from Portland, the City of Roses this seems like a great month to start off with. This list will provide you with some great reading resources if you want to learn more about roses and the people who grow them.
A unique book on roses gathers together the wisdom of thirty-two well-known rose gardeners, including Rosie Atkins, David Austin, Thomas Christopher, Ken Druse, Joe Eck, Allen Lacy, Anthony Noel, Michale Pollan, David Wheeler, Christopher Lloyd, Anne Raver, and Graham Stuart Thomas, among others.
A colorful, firsthand journey inside the world of competitive rose gardening documents the cutthroat gardeners representing a broad cross-section of American rose lovers who will do anything to obsessively cultivate the perfect bloom.
A treasury of eclectic information about different varieties of roses looks at the stories behind their colorful names, probing elements of folklore, poetry, art, literature, science, myth, and other sources to reveal the history of naming and cultivating roses, from ancient times to the present day.
The rose is the most treasured flower in the world. It has been prized, even held as sacred, for thousands of years. Abounding in wonderful illustrations, this enchanting tome traces the flower’s long and fascinating story—from the rose gardens of Malmaison belonging to Napoleon's Empress Josephine to the Wars of the Roses. (Product description from Amazon.com)
A botanical journey that reveals the science behind flowers--how they evolved, how they survive, and how they heal, as well various types of flowers that regulate their own temperature, attract pollinating bats, smell like a rotting corpse and other strange facts about flowers
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