The Care and Handling of Roses with Thorns

by Margaret Dilloway

Book Overview

Thirty-six-year-old Gal Garner lives a regimented life. Her job teaching biology and her struggle with kidney disease keep her toggling between the high school, the hospital, and her home on a strict schedule. Only at home, in her garden, does Gal come alive. It's here that she experiments with Hulthemia roses, painstakingly cross-pollinating various specimens in the hopes of creating a brand-new variation of spectacular beauty. But even her passion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399157751
• ISBN13: 9780399157752
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher