Only recently has the daring mission of these four Victorian era women become known. Dedicated gardeners born in the late 1800s, Lily, Iris, Camas and Daphne embark upon a treacherous path that leads to irreversible changes in their own lives and dramatically impacts the lives of others. In the process of learning powerful facts about plants, they discover even more about themselves and each other. Their story begins over one hundred years ago. It is a story whose time has come.
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