As a young girl, Biancalana learned the secrets of the most famous of these flowers: Grasse’s Rosa centifolia , a rose as bright as bubblegum. Her grandfather taught her to graft it onto wild rose bushes to make it more resistant
and to bundle up its stems before the cold came. It was a quiet, tender childhood, but Biancalana had her sights set on the city. In her 20s, she moved to Cannes to become a banker
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