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 | The warm climate and generous rainfall of the Caribbean islands, together with rich soils, provide excellent conditions for growing a great variety of plant life. Columbus discovered that the indigenous peoples of the region were successfully growing an extensive range of plants and crops, and successive settlers of many cultures have introduced their familiar species. There are few places in the world with as great a diversity of plants as found in todays Caribbean. This book tells the reader h ...
Amazon / Macmillan / Book
 Price: 318.96 $ |  | All of the essentials on iris care are carefully and simply explained, along with tips to ensure a stunning display from healthy plants. Specific cultural advice for the most desirable and adaptable iris types allows gardeners to choose the plants best suited for their region of the country. The full beauty of these irises is captured in color, featuring images by renowned garden photographer Roger Foley. Also included is a list of recent American Iris Society award-winning varieties and complet ...
Amazon / Taunton Press / Book
Price: 269.19 $ |  | One of the most influential landscape and garden designers of the twentieth century, Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1993) has inspired generations of gardens around the world. His sweeping forms and painterly approach to planting were revolutionary when they first came to public attention in the 1930s, and many contemporary designs today owe his vision a great debt. Born in Såo Paulo, Brazil, the son of German emigrants, Burle Marx studied painting in Rio de Janeiro, an aspect of his work that persist ...
Amazon / University of California Press / Book
Price: 249.99 $ |  | This is a compact box set of twelve handbooks covering a selection of the most popular gardening subjects, written by experts and beautifully illustrated with artwork and colour photography. This is a perfect gift for garden enthusiasts and a self-purchase for gardeners of both sexes and any age. This box set represents a joint publication with the Royal Horticultural Society, which now boasts over 36,000 members. Titles covered comprise: Bonsai, Euphorbias, Ferns, Garden Succulents, Grapes, Har ...
Amazon / Mitchell Beazley / Book
Price: 187.02 $ |  | This series of books celebrates some of the most beautiful, oldest, and well-loved flowers. Each book in the series looks at a different theme, and through images by leading flower photographers, reveals overlooked cultivars or rare species. Before looking at over 30 different species, each book investigates the plant in history, art, perfume, and medicine. Practical information is also included in each book, from pruning and plantings to suppliers contact information. A large genus, the Iris oc ...
Amazon / Frances Lincoln / Book
Price: 174.99 $ |  | This book is a rich visual tribute to the magnificent public gardens found near Canadas majestic Niagara Falls, with vivid full-colour photography showing key sites at their peak. Included are the Botanical Gardens, the Niagara Parks Greenhouse, Queen Victoria Park, historic Oakes Garden Theatre, the Floral Clock, and the Rainbow Garden. Rock, water, shade and butterfly gardens are all covered, as are rose, peony, iris and lily collections, seasonal displays, period gardens, carpet beddings, and ...
Amazon / Lorimer / Book
Price: 162.77 $ |  | This volume was first published in 1997, providing the first comprehensive, botanically detailed and up-to-date survey of this beautiful group of plants since publication of The Genus Iris by W. R. Dykes. Following the pattern of the original Dykes monograph, botanical details, cultivation suggestions and general comments are supplied, and the work is generously illustrated with accurate line drawings, colour pictures of unusual species and distribution maps. This survey includes all of the spec ...
Amazon / Cambridge University Press / Book
Price: 130.00 $ |  | A distillation of the authors more than 40 years experience in growing and hybridizing, this book is devoted to every aspect of these lovely, exotic irises. The author was the first to introduce tetraploidy in Siberian and Japanese irises and has bred, registered, and introduced almost 100 new Siberians. ...
Amazon / Timber Press, Incorporated / Book
Price: 122.24 $ |  | Irises are one of the worlds most popular garden plants. That was not always so. The story of how several men and women transformed relatively unimpressive iris species into the plants with flowers of diverse forms and colors so beloved by todays gardeners has never been told until now. This book, the first ever written on the history of garden irises, represents years of research in French, British and American primary and secondary sources. It challenges taxonomists designation of Iris germani ...
Amazon / Krieger Publishing Company / Book
Price: 107.52 $ |  | This guide to the beautiful iris makes clear distinctions between the many types of iris and gives the information gardeners need to provide the best conditions for those they covet. Superb photographs provide inspiration for both novice and expert gardeners. Written for North American gardeners, the expert text is concise and informative, including interesting anecdotes about the long history of the genus and advice on: planting, cultivation and propagation using irises in garden design bearded ...
Amazon / Firefly Books / Book
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Amazon / Univ of Natal Pr / Book
Price: 60.49 $ |  | The history of plants and flowers. Botanical paintings and fascinating essays are combined in Plant Discoveries to examine the fascinating history of plants and flowers. Over 20 plant families are profiled including cacti, daffodils, iris, magnolia, poppies, roses, tulips, conifers, hibiscus, palms and waterlilies. Throughout history, plants have dramatically affected the lives of individuals and society as a whole. Hollands infamous tulip craze is now legend. The 17th century spice trade was so ...
Amazon / Firefly Books / Book
Price: 59.98 $ |  | At a young age Natasha Spender came into contact with the renowned gardens of such literary figures as Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Harold Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West, and Michael Astor. In the 1960s she and her husband, the poet Sir Stephen Spender, acquired the ruins of a farmhouse enclosed in the dramatic skyline of the Alpilles. After years of hard work the result was a unique garden. Lady Spender’s gardening friendships with the locals and neighbors, the regular and inspiring visits of fri ...
Amazon / Random House UK / Book
Price: 50.00 $ |  | This is an A-Z format book which deals with genera and species of smaller bulbs. Detailed information is supplied on habitat and distribution, as well as a brief taxonomic description of the distinguishing features of each plant. Cultivation notes are given in the introduction to each genus - or under particular species which require specialized treatment. The author has also kept in mind the differing needs of growers in diverse climates or hemispheres. The book covers such popular hardy bulbs ...
Amazon / B T Batsford Ltd / Book
Price: 49.99 $ |
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