Inside the Obsessive and Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening

How’s your garden growing this spring? How about your rose garden? Journalist Aurelia Scott decided to follow competitors in the national rose show for her new book. She found a group of people who not only cultivate roses, but nourish a “singular obsession” as well. Scott will join us this hour to discuss what she learned while writing “Otherwise Normal People: Inside the Obsessive and Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening” (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007).

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