Tales of the Rose Tree: Ravishing Rhododendrons and Their Travels Around the World Holiday Fiction ten-year-old Joanie pretends to be

ten-year-old Joanie pretends to be a boy when her family moves to a new town

For five years

they might choose freedom over fate -- and find a way to save their world in their own way

Charlie Chaplin

and eventually found their way to New York

Tales of the Rose Tree: Ravishing Rhododendrons and Their Travels Around the World Holiday Fiction ten-year-old Joanie pretends to beThe history of rhododendrons is full of swashbuckling plant collectors and visionary gardeners, colonial violence and ecological destruction, stunning botanical successes and bitter business disappointments. And it is here related with consummate skill by Jane Brown, an English garden writer clearly besotted by these glorious and scented strangers, with their mouth watering candy colors, their cascades of way bells or iridescent globes proffered in