The Gardener Who Came Too Late

In April 2011, Lisa Harmon drove back to Joplin, Missouri, three days after the EF5 tornado shredded her neighborhood into splinters. She came for one reason: to dig up her grandmother's rose bushes — the ones Nana had planted in 1968 — and save whatever roots she could from the wreckage. She brought garbage bags, a spade, and low expectations.…