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  | | German: Taglilie | Czech: denivka | | Genus: Hemerocallis | Family: Liliaceae, | | Mature Height: 0.30 m | Bloom in: V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, | Flower Colour:  | Soil Preferred: neutral, nutritive, | Light Required:   | | | Other Attributes: bulb, type of inflorescence - cincinnus, bed plant, attractive flowers, |
 Hemerocallis x hybrida 'Stella d'Oro'
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- 01) Hemerocallis x hybrida 'Bonanza' (daylily), Ger: Taglilie, Czech: denivka
- 02) Hemerocallis x hybrida 'Crimson Pirate' (daylily), Ger: Taglilie, Czech: denivka
- 03) Hemerocallis x hybrida 'Enie Weenie' (daylily), Ger: Taglilie, Czech: denivka
- 04) Hemerocallis x hybrida 'Frans Hals' (daylily), Ger: Taglilie, Czech: denivka
- 05) Hemerocallis x hybrida 'Stella d'Oro' (daylily), Ger: Taglilie, Czech: denivka
THE DAYLILY - A plant for all climates (3785 readers)It is not surprising that daylilies have become so popular. They are amongst the most beautiful flowering plants, bloom prolifically over a long period and come in an enormous range of spectacular colours. LONG LASTING BEAUTY The botanical name - Hemerocallis , meaning beauty for a day is rather mis... ( About-garden.com) Daylilies are long-living perennial plants, with large flowers and a very wide range of colors. Practically pest-free and tolerant of drought, they require little attention. The Daylily has become Americas favorite perennial flower. Several species of the genus Hemerocallis grow wild in the tempera... ( About-garden.com) When to plant Daylilies can be planted very successfully at any time the ground can be worked --- spring, summer or fall. Fall planted Daylilies should be mulched to prevent winter frost heaving. Where to plant Daylilies are sunloving flowers but they also bloom rather well in partial shade. Six or... ( About-garden.com) Hemerocallis Stella dOro (Daylily) Award winning dwarf daylily. Strap like, medium green foliage. Fragrant, trumpet-shaped, 2-3, canary-yellow colored blooms, and tangerine throat, characterize this popular plant. Usually the first to bloom, and is a prolific repeat bloomer. Peak blooming in late sp... ( About-garden.com) Index:
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 | Product Description: 'A fascinating exploration of human greed and self-delusion and also a tribute to our ageless search for beauty' Deborah Moggach
Publisher: Orion mass market paperback (2000-08-10)
Price: $16.50 | | Anne Goldgar, |
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 | Product Description: In the 1630s the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as popular history would have it, folly. We all know the outline of the story—how otherwise sensible merchants, nobles, and artisans spent all they had (and much that they didn’t) on tulip bulbs. We have heard how these bulbs changed hands hundreds of times in a single day, and how some bulbs, sold and resold for thousands of guilders, never even existed. Tulipmania is seen as an example of the gullibility of crowds and the dangers of financial speculation.
But it wasn’t like that. As Anne Goldgar reveals in Tulipmania, not one of these stories is true. Making use of extensive archival research, she lays waste to the legends, revealing that while the 1630s did see a speculative bubble in tulip prices, neither the height of the bubble nor its bursting were anywhere near as dramatic as we tend to think. By clearing away the accumulated myths, Goldgar is able to show us instead the far more interesting reality: the ways in which tulipmania reflected deep anxieties about the transformation of Dutch society in the Golden Age.
“Goldgar tells us at the start of her excellent debunking book: ‘Most of what we have heard of [tulipmania] is not true.’. . . She tells a new story.”—Simon Kuper, Financial Times
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (2007-05-15)
Price: $30.00 | | Michael King, |
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 | Product Description: This pictorial guide presents a fresh approach to using these popular bulbs in contemporary gardens. The book begins with a history of tulips and moves on to design approaches and tips for various plant combinations. Twenty groups of tulips are described in detail, and a separate chapter deals exclusively with color varieties, making it easy for readers to choose tulips to create a wide palette of color combinations in their garden. Complete growing and maintenance instructions are also provided.
Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated (2005-07-01)
Price: $29.95 | | Mike Dash, |
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 | Product Description: Amsterdam, 1637
For the cost of a single tulip bulb you could buy:
- four oxen or
- twelve sheep or
- twenty-four tons of wheat or
- two hogsheads of wine or
- two tons of butter or
- four barrels of beer or
- a thousand pounds of cheese or
- a silver drinking cup or
- an oak bed or
- a ship.
In the 1630s, visitors to the prosperous trading cities of the Netherlands couldn't help but notice that thousands of normally sober, hardworking Dutch citizens from every walk of life were caught up in an extraordinary frenzy of buying and selling. The object of this unprecedented speculation was the tulip, a delicate and exotic Eastern import that had bewitched horticulturists, noblemen, and tavern owners alike. A trade in tulips soon evolved, and for almost a year rare bulbs changed hands for incredible and ever-increasing sums, until single flowers were being sold for more than the cost of a house.
Historians would come to call it tulipomania. It was the first futures market in history -- and like all the ones that would follow, it crashed spectacularly, plunging speculators and investors into economic ruin and despair. But that was not the first instance of tulipomania -- nor would it be the last.
This is the history of the tulip, from its origins on the barren windswept steppes of central Asia, to its place of honor in the lush imperial gardens of Constantinople, to its starring moment as the most coveted -- and beautiful -- commodity in Europe. Historian Mike Dash vividly narrates the story of this amazing flower and the colorful cast of characters whose lives were inextricably entwined with it. There is the eccentric Turkish sultan Ahmed III, whose reign even to this day is known as the Tulip Era, and the French academic Carolus Clusius, the most respected botanist of his time, whose gifts of the then-unknown bulbs to friends and patrons sparked the Dutch tulipomania. There's even the lowly tavern owner Wouter Winkel, whose death in 1633 left his seven children destitute -- until they dug up his bed of tulip bulbs and sold them at auction during the height of the tulip mania, an auction that transformed his heirs from penniless orphans to wealthy young men and women who would never have to work a day in their lives. Centuries apart historically, and worlds apart culturally, this cast of characters all had one thing in common: tulipomania.
Amazon.com Review: For history buffs or gardeners who enjoy more than just digging in the dirt, Tulipomania presents a fascinating look at the tulip frenzy that took place in Holland in the mid-1600s. Beginning as gifts given among the wealthy and educated folk of Europe and Asia, the tulip rapidly became a source of incredible financial gain--similar to today's Internet start-up companies or Beanie Baby collections. Stories of craftsmen discontinuing their trade and focusing on raising tulips for public auction, where they sold for prices comparable to that of a manor house, are astonishing. Poets, moralists, businessmen--it seems everyone was involved at some level. Lack of regulation and poor quality control were just a couple of the details that led to the abrupt crash in February 1637. Tulipomania was the original market bust--people were ruined, debts went unpaid. It was a disaster similar to the stock-market crash of 1929. A brief resurrection of the mania occurred 65 years later in Istanbul, and while it was not the financial obsession Holland experienced, it led to the creation of standards in flower shape and increased the development of new types. You don't need to be obsessed to enjoy this book--an interest in tulips, history, and the futures market ensures that this will be a remarkable read. --Jill Lightner
Publisher: Crown (2000-02-29)
Price: $23.00 | | Brent Heath, Rebecca Heath, |
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 | Product Description: This book distills all of the Heaths' wide knowledge and experience in the selection and culture of tulips, from the care and feeding of the bulbs themselves to the cutting and arranging of the flowers.
Publisher: Bright Sky Press (2001-10-28)
Price: $24.95 |
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