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The queen of flowers, the symbol of love and one of the oldest cultivated plants in the world – the rose. Yet behind the most romantic of all flowers is a vast market subjected to rigid laws. The author Angelika Lizius observes and interviews people, who devote their lives in one way or another to the rose: Breeders and growers, who have to comply with the evergrowing demands in the cultivation of new rose species, artists and scientists, who delve into the symbolic and
mythological significance of the rose, or who simply want to find out why, only a few days after purchase, some roses droop while others blossom for weeks. Finally the latest rose species are presented at the “International Rose Trials” in Baden-Baden. Once again rose-growers from all over the world meet this year to award the “most perfect” garden
rose of the year 2006.