Roses have featured in the daily lives of millions of people around the world, from the earliest religious rituals and burials and the cuisines of numerous nations, to the arts and the mystique of perfumes. Today roses are ubiquitous and universally loved and revered. Potpourri: For rose lovers and gardeners, a book for dipping into and enjoying at leisure, is a pocket history of rose history and culture in Australia – some of it little known. It encompasses such diverse topics as the first roses in Australia, the Australian giants of the rose world – the likes of Alister Clark, Susan Irvine, Walter Duncan and David Rustin – an Australian maze of rosebushes, and how rose nurseries are adapting to changing market forces.
