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Good news about the Australian Tea Rose book

16 years ago

At the HRF conference in Cerritos in 2005, we saw the proofs of a book that was in preparation by a Heritage Rose Group in Western Australia.

The link below tells some of the story of the delay as well as the good news of its expected appearance this coming fall.

Here is a link that might be useful: With two links

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Comments (12)

carolfm
16 years ago
Yay!!! Finally. I'm delighted that they were able to find a publisher and I can't wait to have a copy of my own.

Carol
gnabonnand
16 years ago
A million thanks to you, Ann, for this news.
I'll bookmark that site.
I want this book.

Randy
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thonotorose
16 years ago
The exchange rates calculates at 53.00 US dollars equal to 60.00 Aus dollars.

FYI
melissa_thefarm
16 years ago
Count me in!!! The world needs a good book on Teas!

Melissa
gnabonnand
16 years ago
I made an inquiry regarding this book, and today I received the following email from the publisher, Rosenberg.
Whoo Hooo! I can't wait.

Randy

"Thank you for your email. We are making arrangements for the book to be made available in the USA in October 2008 and will confirm these arrangements shortly."

Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd
P.O Box 6125
Dural Delivery Centre
NSW 2158, Australia
Ph: +61 2 9654 1502
Fax: +61 2 9654 1338
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
16 years ago
This is such great news. I hope the book will cover many different varieties, not just the most popular ones that we're already familiar with. I also hope there will be lots of pictures. Does anyone know how many pages and pictures the book will have?

Ingrid
nastarana
16 years ago
Perhaps we can get the correct identity of SDMLV sorted out. Is it the once blooming orangy-pink climbing tea grown in American gardens, or the repeat blooming rasberry pink climbing tea grown abroad?
rosefolly
16 years ago
This is very good news indeed. I will look forward to getting and reading this book next fall. Thank you for passing the news along to us all.

Rosefolly
jimofshermanoaks
16 years ago
Amazon.ca has the book listed for a July delivery. FWIW

JimD
gnabonnand
16 years ago
Ingrid, to answer your question:
The book has 256 pages
400 color pictures
And the book is approximately 9" x 11"

Randy
ingrid_vc so. CA zone 9
16 years ago
Thank you, Randy, that sounds wonderful. I think a lot of rose people are going to be so excited about this book. I for one think they're making us wait much too long!

Ingrid
anntn6b
Original Author
16 years ago
I'm just thankful that the authors were willing to keep trying to get it published after the initial set up fell apart.
We had seen pages of it at Cerritos, and better late than never, because for a while there, "never" seemed to be about to happen.

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