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In The Rose Rustlers, Greg Grant and William C. Welch offer a personal, in-depth, and entertaining account of some of the great stories gathered during their years as participants in one of the most important plant-hunting efforts of the twentieth century-the quest to save antique roses that disappeared from the market in a notoriously trend-driven business. By the 1950s, almost exclusively, modern roses (those with one compact bloom at the top of a large stem) were grown for the cut-flower market. The large rounded shrubs and billowy fence climbers known to our grandparents and great-grandparents in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries had been reduced to this rather monotonous single style of plant. Yet those roses of old still grew, tough and persistent, in farmyards, cemeteries, vacant lots, and abandoned fields. The rediscovery of these antiques and the subsequent movement to conserve them became the mission of "rose rustlers," dedicated rosarians who studied, sought, cut, and cultivated these hardy survivors. Here, the authors chronicle their own origins, adventures, and discoveries as part of a group dubbed the Texas Rose Rustlers. They present tales of the many efforts that have helped restore lost roses not only to residential gardens, but also to commercial and church landscapes in Texas. Their experiences and friendships with other figures in the heirloom rose world bring an insider's perspective to the lore of "rustling," the art of propagation, and the continued fascination with the world's favorite flower.
Dubbed the Bulb Hunter in a 2006 "New York Times" feature story,
Chris Wiesinger took his passion for bulbs to vacant lots,
abandoned houses, cemeteries, and construction sites throughout the
South in search of botanical survivors whose descendants had never
seen the inside of a big-box chain store. The vintage specimens
Wiesinger sought came from hardy, historic stock, adapted to human
neglect and hot climates, reappearing faithfully over decades
without care or cultivation.
New edition of a classic work on Southern heirloom gardening . .
.Heirloom plants belong in Southern gardens. Tough and adapted,
tried and true, pretty and useful, these living antiques--passed
through countless generations--represent the foundation of
traditional gardens as we know them today.
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