Coming Up Roses

• Windrush, by Catherine OsbornPassions of the Potting Shed, by Ruth Joseph (Cardiff)The Brilliant Blue Delphiniums, by Elizabeth Morgan Councillor Abraham's Growing Concern, by Ally ThomasA Bad Summer for Wasps, by Sue Coffey (Pembroke)Coming up Roses, by Molly PriceRed Dahlias, by Nina SchmeiderHolm Oak, by Naomi Bagel (Carmarthen)Seasons of Brews and Bruises, by Judith Barrow (Kilgetty)Monstera Deliciosa, by PennyAnne WindsorReseeding, by Cecelia Morreau (Cardiff)High Noon, by Hilary Bowers (Aberystwyth)Hortus Conclusus, by Imogen Rhia Herrard (Cardiff)Jonesy's Place, by Christine M Hurst (Harlech)The Bottle Garden, by Joy Tucker (Swansea)Silver Bells and Cockleshells, by Ella-Louise Gilbert (Swansea)Rosemary and Rue, by Sue Anderson (Monmouth)Gift, by Viv Kelly (Ammanford)Yellow Ribbons on a Pear Tree, by Sian Melangell Dafydd Falling Meadow, by Alexandra Claire (Cardiff)

Companion volume to Honno Fiction anthologies My Cheating Heart and Safe World Gone.Promotion in The Bookseller's Independent Publisher's Guide and Publishing News.A mix of established names and newcomers to Honno's collections, including Sian Melangell Dafydd, Ruth Joseph, Ally Thomas, Judith Barrow and Viv Kelly.All Honno's short story anthologies have been sell-outs and gardening is the new sex! From feature films like 'Grow Your Own' to the BBC's week long coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show the public just cant get enough...A fiction anthology from Welsh women writing about gardens: what they mean to them, what happens in them and where they take them...In 'Yellow Ribbons on a Pear Tree' an Italian POW returns home to a mixed welcome from his wife and family; 'Gift' is a tale of loss and love and of misunderstandings set around a memorial oak sapling; 'Rosemary and Rue' concerns memory and what it means to lose it and 'Seasons of Brews and Roses' tells of the love between mother and daughter and its waxing and waning, in good times and bad.There are sad stories and happy ones, tales from home and abroad all of them share a love for plants and planting, flowers and seeds, a real sense of the power of growing things to change lives.