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 | This text is a collection of paintings of flowers by Elizabeth Blackadder. Gardening writer Deborah Kellaway provides commentary on the artists favourite flowers - irises (the flower for which she is best known), poppies, tulips, lilies and orchids - and she writes shorter essays on hellebores, anemones and wild flowers, as well as the more exotic strelizia and banksia. She also considers the history of each plant and its place in painting and in the garden, as well as supplying brief cultivatio ...
Amazon / Pavilion Books / Book
 Price: 380.40 $ |  | This is the 10 th volume in a series which was initiated in 1977. Like previous volumes, it contains scientific peer reviewed reviews on topics dealing with orchids. These topics include 1) a history of orchid breeders in Singapore, 2) discussion of research on pollen effects on orchid flowers carried out a century ago by the German plant physiologist Hans Fitting in Bogor, Indonesia which led to the first suggestion that plants produce hormones, 3) consideration whether orchids are mentioned in ...
Amazon / Springer / Book
Price: 260.47 $ |  | Without a doubt, the most widely grown orchids in the world are the species and hybrids of Phalaenopsis , the moth orchids. Since their discovery by western botanists in the 18th century, phalaenopsis were considered aristocrats even among orchids and were eagerly sought out by the most discerning — and wealthy — of collectors. With advances in orchid propagation and breeding in the middle 20th century, however, these orchids became accessible and affordable to anyone with an eye for exceptional ...
Amazon / Timber Press / Book
Price: 199.76 $ |  | Distributed by Elsevier Science on behalf of Science Press. Available internationally for the first time, this book is a definitive illustrated work on Chinese wild orchids. It introduces a total of 117 genera, 403 species and 2 varieties of Chinese wild orchids with detailed description of origin (domestic and foreign), habitat, altitude, flowering period, and 791 stunningly beautiful photographs shot in the field. The authors are both highly-regarded in the research of Chinese native orchids a ...
Amazon / Elsevier Science / Book
Price: 89.86 $ |  | Without a doubt, the most widely grown orchids in the world are the species and hybrids of Phalaenopsis , the moth orchids. Since their discovery by western botanists in the 18th century, phalaenopsis were considered aristocrats even among orchids and were eagerly sought out by the most discerning — and wealthy — of collectors. With advances in orchid propagation and breeding in the middle 20th century, however, these orchids became accessible and affordable to anyone with an eye for exceptional ...
Amazon / Timber Press / Book
Price: 69.94 $ |  | Excellent, comprehensive guide—meticulously researched, clearly written and profusely illustrated—describes the characteristics and basic needs of hundreds of orchid species—from the thimble-sized Dendrobium frigidum to the large, fragrant blossoms of the Cattleya walkerana . Includes Encyclopedia of Representative Species. ...
Amazon / Dover Publications / Book
Price: 62.33 $ |  | Cattleyas are frequently called the Queen of the Orchids, and Carl Withners passion for them started before World War II. About 12 years ago he published the first in this series of six books, which now comes to a conclusion with this final volume. The South American Encyclia species have not previously been the subject of a book, and the genus presents many problems and difficulties. A few of the species are known from a single herbarium specimen and may well now be extinct because of the conti ...
Amazon / Timber Press / Book
Price: 54.58 $ |  | This text aims to dispel the mystery surrounding the cultivation of orchids. It clearly describes modern methods of cultivation for numerous orchids and their hybrids including a selection which can be grown without special equipment. ...
Amazon / David & Charles Ltd / Book
Price: 49.90 $ |  | A scientific and artistic collaboration reveals a stunning, even sensual, microscopic world. Pollen grains have fascinated the scientifically curious since the 17th century. They are minute, almost impossible to see without a high-powered microscope, and remain hidden beyond the beauty o the flower until the moment of release. Then the grains, like alien spaceships, are carried by wind, water or animal to achieve their purpose of procreation. This beautifully produced and highly original book by ...
Amazon / Firefly Books / Book
Price: 48.89 $ |  | Most flowers are seasonal plants. However, the hardy perennial keeps itself alive all year round. This study of the hrady perennials contains gardening tips and detailed photographs of many examples - dahlias, gladioli, lilies, and others, both famous and obscure.Perennials is a love poem to the natural world, as captured in the beauty and diversity of perennial plants. It is both an art book and a biology book, all wrapped up in gorgeous color images of unusual and familiar flowers. One of seve ...
Amazon / Taschen / Book
Price: 39.99 $ |  | The most ravishing biology lessons weve ever seen. -- Chicago Tribune The publication of the first edition of Pollen broke new ground by melding art and science in a beautiful yet authoritative examination of the design and function of pollen. This new edition contains 20 additional, equally spectacular, photographs published here for the first time. The book also contains a fully updated chapter about the Millennium Seed Bank Project and its recent acquisitions. Special light and scanning elect ...
Amazon / Firefly Books / Book
Price: 35.27 $ |  | A contemporary of Redoute, Franz Bauer (1758-1840) has been considered by many experts to be the greatest of all botanical artists. Yet this book is the first to gather together and reproduce any collection of his work. Until now, with a few exceptions, his paintings of orchids and his many hundreds of studies of other plants, have lain hidden away in a few institutions, most notably the Natural History Museum in London and the University of Gottingen in Germany. Bauer was born in Austria, but l ...
Amazon / Timber Press, Incorporated / Book
Price: 34.26 $ |  | Plants can be a real feature of your home, and this book shows you how, with masses of inspiring suggestions for displaying your plants to best effect, from indoor window boxes and window recesses to using plants as room dividers, bottle gardens and terraria. Youll also find lots of detailed, practical information on caring for your houseplants, with illustrated step-by-step instructions on selecting plants and containers, creating the right conditions, watering, pruning, dealing with pests and ...
Amazon / Readers Digest / Book
Price: 28.77 $ |  | In Susan Orleans mesmerizing true story of beauty and obsession is John Laroche, a renegade plant dealer and sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he is missing his front teeth and has the posture of al dente spaghetti. In 1994, Laroche and three Seminole Indians were arrested with rare orchids they had stolen from a wild swamp in south Florida that is filled with some of the worlds most extraordinary plants and trees. Laroche had planned to clone the orchids and then sell them for a s ...
Amazon / Random House Audio / Book
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