Otherwise Normal People: Inside the Thorny World of Competitive Rose Gardening

by Aurelia C. Scott

Algonquin Books

May 2007, 256 pages, $22.95

by Jason B. Jones

It turns out that when Gertude Stein said, "A rose is a rose is a rose," she was lying.

I read Popmatters and I’m interested in a lot of things outside of my own experience.  That would include a story of the people who are myopically focused on rose competitions.  The myopically-inclined provide good stories for those of us inclined to take a step back and have a wider look around.

Guess it shows I’m not from Brooklyn, eh?

Comment by Rick R. from Santa Fe, NM — July 12, 2007 @ 6:30 am

“Interested in lots of things outside my own experience”—no doubt.

But I think that the price of being a competitive rose grower, as opposed to just a regular gardener who likes roses, is a certain . . . single-mindedness.  (This probably isn’t true of roses only.)

Comment by Jason from New Britain, CT — July 12, 2007 @ 7:06 am

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