The Women behind the Roses: An Introduction to Alister Clark's Women

Tilley Govanstone

ISBN 10: 1877058939 / ISBN 13: 9781877058936

Published by Rosenberg Publishing, 2010

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Tilley Govanstone, Rosenberg Publishing. Alister Clark, Australia's most prodigious rosarian, bred roses to establish new, improved, hardier varieties that would flourish in the Australian climate, and grow better in Australian soils. He aimed to produce roses that would extend their flowering beyond a season: ideally to bear blossoms all year round. This book is a celebration of the sixty-five women to whom the late Alister Clark, chose to dedicate Glenara Seedling roses. There is story behind each rose. The authors are noted for their detective work in finding "lost" Alister Clark roses. With the thread of Alister Clark's forty-year rose-breeding program linking the women together, the book presents biographical sketches of each woman rose name-sake, and provides contemporary rose-grower's notes on each woman's rose.

Seller Inventory # 9781877058936-SECONDHAND

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Women behind the Roses: An Introduction to Alister Clark's Women
• Publisher: Rosenberg Publishing
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1877058939
• ISBN 13: 9781877058936
• Binding: Hardback
• Book Type: Hardback

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Synopsis

Alister Clark was an Australian gardener who bred roses to go beyond their natural limitations. He established new, improved, hardier varieties of roses that would flourish in the hotter, drier, Australian climate and would simply grow better in Australian soils. Clark aimed to produce roses that would extend their flowering beyond a season, ideally to bear blossoms all year round. His roses are much prized by gardeners in climates similar to that of Australia (California, for example). This book is a celebration of the 65 women to whom Alister Clark, Australia's most prodigious rosarian, chose to dedicate Glenara Seedling roses. As rose-growers of the 1920s and 1930s came to appreciate and promote the beauty, vigor, and array of Glenara Seedlings, their curiosity became aroused as to the identities of the roses' namesakes. After nearly 100 years of the registration and commercial release of Clark's first female-named rose, 'Jessie Clark,' the curiosity has not abated. The Women behind the Roses is also a celebration of the wonderful life and legacy of Alister Clark himself, Australia's acknowledged 'Man of Roses.' The book is filled with historic photographic and beautiful color photographs of the roses.