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 | Dust jacket notes: A six-foot-high brick wall, built on the grounds of the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx in the 1930s, encloses a secluded garden where one of the twentieth centurys premier botanists, Arlow Stout, worked for more than thirty years. Each day during the summer, Stout would disappear through the walls only gate to wade hip deep among hundreds of daylilies with tantalizing shades of yellow, red, and orange flowers. By crossing one particular plant with another, Stout deftly ...
Amazon / Sagapress / Book
 Price: 65.08 $ |  | Tulips: Facts and Folklore About the Worlds Most Planted Flower celebrates this enduring flower and how it has captured the hearts and imaginations of gardeners and collectors for over 500 years. Lavishly illustrated with photographs by the world-renowned photographer Malak, Tulips is a stunning pictorial history of the flowers beauty and versatility. Arriving from Turkey and taking Western Europe by storm, tulips have endured and are a mainstay for gardeners and collectors alike, with varieties ...
Amazon / Key Porter Books / Book
Price: 24.95 $ |  | A personal selection and authoritative guide to the most beautiful bulbs on the earth. The publication of Anna Pavords guide to her favorite bulbs, corms, and tubers is an event to be celebrated. Here, the world famous author of The Tulip , selects 540 favorite bulbs, more bulbs than and gardener could grow in a lifetime. Easy-to-grow, generally inexpensive and highly accessible, bulbs are readily available from many outlets. From acis, anemones and arums to zantedeschia, zephyranthes, and zigad ...
Amazon / Mitchell Beazley / Book
Price: 24.68 $ |  | This lavishly illustrated, oversized volume is a gorgeous tribute to one of the most beloved flowers of spring. The tulip has a long and storied history, including an episode in seventeenth-century Holland, when speculation in tulip bulbs raged out of control, nearly bankrupting the entire nation. Originally published at $40; over 20 thousand copies sold. ...
Amazon / MetroBooks (NY) / Book
Price: 19.95 $ |  | Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire , Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip ...
Amazon / Audio Evolution, distributed by Gildan/Hachette / Book
Price: 19.50 $ |  | For fans of Anna Pavords The Tulip and Andrea Wulfs The Brothers Gardener , a vividly written and lavishly illustrated history of the Queen of Flowers Ever since Sappho planted roses at the shrine of Aphrodite, no flower has captured the imagination in quite the same way. Here, the acclaimed horticultural historian Jennifer Potter sets out on a quest to uncover the life of a flower that has been viewed so hetrogenously by different cultures in different countries across the centuries. Beginning ...
Amazon / Atlantic Books / Book
Price: 15.99 $ |  | Coveted by kings and admired by gardeners in ancient and modern times alike, the tulip has nearly brought nations to moral and economic ruin. The Tulip Anthology is a beautiful and comprehensive celebration of this most astonishing and beloved of flowers. Ron van Dongens lush color photography is paired with visual art from the last thousand years, as well as writings on the mystery and wonder of the tulip from throughout human history. A foreword by best-selling author and tulip expert Anna Pav ...
Amazon / Chronicle Books / Book
Price: 14.78 $ |  | The Tulip is not a gardening book. It is the story of a flower that has made men mad. Greed, desire, anguish and devotion have all played their part in the development of the tulip into the world-wide phenomenon it is today. No other flower has ever carried so much cultural baggage; it charts political upheavals, illuminates social behaviour, mirrors economic booms and busts, plots the ebb and flow of religious persecution. Pavord tells how the tulip arrived from Turkey and took the whole of Wes ...
Amazon / Bloomsbury Publishing / Book
Price: 12.99 $ |  | A wonderful book about the gardening year with practical advice by the top garden writer and bestselling author of The Tulip . ...
Amazon / Bloomsbury USA / Book
Price: 9.23 $ |  | This important new book presents a fresh vision of how to use tulips in contemporary gardens. A short introduction explores the history of tulips -- their origins, how they came to Europe and the current status of the tulip industry. Michael King then moves swiftly into the garden, to give detailed guidance on how tulips can best be combined with other bulbs, perennials, shrubs and trees, in beds, borders and containers. Twenty groups of classic tulips -- all available today, all valuable in the ...
Amazon / Frances Lincoln / Book
Price: 6.94 $ |  | An exhilarating new book from the author of the worldwide bestseller The Tulip . The Naming of Names traces the search for order in the natural world, a search that for hundreds of years occupied some of the most brilliant minds in Europe. Redefining man’s relationship with nature was a major pursuit during the Renaissance. But in a world full of poisons, there was also an urgent practical need to name and recognize different plants, because most medicines were made from plant extracts. Anna Pav ...
Amazon / Bloomsbury USA / Book
Price: 6.74 $ |  | Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire , Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip ...
Amazon / PBS / Book
Price: 6.50 $ |  | The New York Times bestseller and international publishing sensation-now available in paperback. Greed, desire, anguish, and devotion have all played their part in the development of the tulip from a wild flower of the Asian steppes to the worldwide phenomenon it is today. No other flower has ever carried so much cultural baggage: it charts political upheavals, illuminates social behavior, mirrors economic booms and busts, and plots the ebb and flow of religious persecution.Sumptuously illustrat ...
Amazon / Bloomsbury USA / Book
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