STAGES OF BLOOM by
Following a troubling experience at church, ninety-year old Edith Jones looks to her award-winning roses for comfort. On a Friday night in September, joined by her hapless “yard-man,” a rigid brother-in-law, and a young college student and her Marine Corps boyfriend, in the backyard of her Victorian-era home, Edith struggles to assemble an entry for her very last rose show. A hybrid tea in perfect exhibition...
Following a troubling experience at church, ninety-year old Edith Jones looks to her award-winning roses for comfort. On a Friday night in September, joined by her hapless “yard-man,” a rigid brother-in-law, and a young college student and her Marine Corps boyfriend, in the backyard of her Victorian-era home, Edith struggles to assemble an entry for her very last rose show. A hybrid tea in perfect exhibition form fails to hold the answers to her hard questions but, come Sunday morning, an enlightened Edith and her newfound friends are all ready to celebrate their own evolving “stages of bloom.”