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The Book of Orchids

Author : Mark W. Chase
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022622452X
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Orchids written by Mark W. Chase and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of every seven flowering plants on earth is an orchid. Some are stunningly over the top; others almost inconspicuous. The Orchidaceae is the second most widely geographically distributed family, after the grasses, yet remains one of the least understood. This book will profile 600 species, representing the remarkable and unexpected diversity and complexity in the taxonomy and phylogeny of these beguiling plants, and the extraordinary means they have evolved in order to ensure the attraction of pollinators. Each species entry includes life-size photographs to capture botanical detail, as well as information on distribution, peak flowering period, and unique attributes--both natural and cultural. The result is a work which will attract and allure, much as the orchids themselves do.

Orchid Modern

Author : Marc Hachadourian
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604698160
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Orchid Modern written by Marc Hachadourian and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This beautiful book is useful for all of us, novice and experienced orchid lovers alike.” —Martha Stewart, author, entrepreneur, founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Add the vibrant colors and exotic blooms of orchids to your houseplant haven! It’s easier than you think with the help of Orchid Modern. Marc Hachadourian, the curator of the orchid collection at the New York Botanical Garden, shares his secrets to successfully growing these sometimes finicky houseplants. Besides the basics, you’ll learn his top 120 orchid picks for green and not-so-green thumbs. Ten inspirational, step-by-step projects, including terrariums, a wreath, and a kokedama, provide the confidence to make orchids a thriving, vivid part of your home’s signature style.

The Amazing World of Orchids

Author : Wilma Rittershausen
Publisher : Quadrille Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781844009398
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Amazing World of Orchids written by Wilma Rittershausen and published by Quadrille Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysterious and alluring, infinitely beautiful and breathtakingly varied, orchids have fired man's imagination throughout the ages. This book is a guide from world authorities on orchids, featuring all the newest varieties.

The Orchid Thief

Author : Susan Orlean
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307795292
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Orchid Thief written by Susan Orlean and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower—the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii—a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America’s strange flower-selling subculture, through Florida’s swamps and beyond, along with the Seminoles who help him and the forces of justice who fight him. In the end, Orlean—and the reader—will have more respect for underdog determination and a powerful new definition of passion. In this new edition, coming fifteen years after its initial publication and twenty years after she first met the “orchid thief,” Orlean revisits this unforgettable world, and the route by which it was brought to the screen in the film Adaptation, in a new retrospective essay. Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. Praise for The Orchid Thief “Stylishly written, whimsical yet sophisticated, quirkily detailed and full of empathy . . . The Orchid Thief shows [Orlean’s] gifts in full bloom.”—The New York Times Book Review “Fascinating . . . an engrossing journey [full] of theft, hatred, greed, jealousy, madness, and backstabbing.”—Los Angeles Times “Orlean’s snapshot-vivid, pitch-perfect prose . . . is fast becoming one of our national treasures.”—The Washington Post Book World “Orlean’s gifts [are] her ear for the self-skewing dialogue, her eye for the incongruous, convincing detail, and her Didion-like deftness in description.”—Boston Sunday Globe “A swashbuckling piece of reporting that celebrates some virtues that made America great.”—The Wall Street Journal

The World Wildlife Fund Book of Orchids

Author : Jack Kramer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558590014
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The World Wildlife Fund Book of Orchids written by Jack Kramer and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kramer's lively, authoritative text covers legend, botany, and cultivation of orchids. The gorgeous pictures and complete captions on the stellar members of this family make this a book no orchid collector can be without. 234 illustrations, 212 in full color.

The Scent of Scandal

Author : Craig Pittman
Publisher : Florida History and Culture
ISBN 13 : 9780813060569
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Scent of Scandal written by Craig Pittman and published by Florida History and Culture. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2012 Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Non-Fiction "FANTASTIC. If I did not know most of the main players I would have thought the author had a vivid and twisted imagination."--Paul Martin Brown, author of Wild Orchids of Florida "A fascinating true story of obsession, greed, and lust for the unobtainable. Reminds me a great deal of The Maltese Falcon. This rare flower is definitely the stuff that dreams are made of."--Ace Atkins, author of Devil's Garden and Infamous "Pittman has captured the extreme competition, unique characters, and general insanity that often typify the orchid world. The Scent of Scandal exemplifies how passion and profit can overrule common sense and the law."--Scott Steward, former associate editor, North American Native Orchid Journal After its Peruvian discovery in 2002, Phragmipedium kovachii became the rarest and most sought-after orchid in the world. Prices soared to $10,000 on the black market. Then one showed up at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, where every year more than 100,000 people visit. They come for the lush landscape on Sarasota Bay and for Selby's vast orchid collection, one of the most magnificent in the world. The collision between Selby's scientists and the smugglers of Phrag. Kovachii, a rare ladyslipper orchid hailed as the most significant and beautiful new species discovered in a century, led to search warrants, a grand jury investigation, and criminal charges. It made headlines around the country, cost the gardens hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, and led to tremendous internal turmoil. Investigative journalist Craig Pittman unravels this tangled web to shine a spotlight on flaws in the international treaties governing trade in endangered wildlife--which may protect individual plants and animals in shipping but do little to halt the destruction of whole colonies in the wild. The Scent of Scandal unspools like a riveting mystery novel, stranger than anything in Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief or the film Adaptation. Pittman shows how some people can become so obsessed--with beauty, with profit, with fame--that they will ignore everything, even the law.

The Orchid

Author : Lauren Gardiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780233005492
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Orchid written by Lauren Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enhanced with notes and letters held in Kew's archives and illustrations, this is an exceptionally beautiful book on an extraordinary plant.

Complete Guide to Orchids

Author : Ortho Books
Publisher : Meredith Books
ISBN 13 : 9780897215060
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Complete Guide to Orchids written by Ortho Books and published by Meredith Books. This book was released on 2005-01-18 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slecting, growing and displaying Orchids. Endorsed by the American Orchid Society.

Orchid Care

Author : Barb Schmidt
Publisher : Barbara a Schmidt
ISBN 13 : 9780998337616
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Orchid Care written by Barb Schmidt and published by Barbara a Schmidt. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the exotic and mysterious family of orchids. Orchid Care: For the Beginner covers basic orchid care, including watering, nutrient requirements, light levels, and repotting. It contains a troubleshooting guide for common orchid genus. With over 30 color photos, Orchid Care: For the Beginner is perfect for orchid enthusiasts everywhere.

Orchids Handbook

Author : Michael Tibbs
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 162008306X
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Orchids Handbook written by Michael Tibbs and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you always wanted to know about growing and caring for orchids, with practical advice on care and cultivation, plus a comprehensive plant directory of 40 popular varieties.

Understanding Orchids

Author : William Cullina
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618263264
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Orchids written by William Cullina and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring more than 200 color photographs, "Understanding Orchids" provides readers with easy-to-follow instructions for the orchids they would like to grow.

Stickwork

Author : Patrick Dougherty
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616891955
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Stickwork written by Patrick Dougherty and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using minimal tools and a simple technique of bending, interweaving, and fastening together sticks, artist Patrick Dougherty creates works of art inseparable with nature and the landscape. With a dazzling variety of forms seamlessly intertwined with their context, his sculptures evoke fantastical images of nests, cocoons, cones, castles, and beehives. Over the last twenty-five years, Dougherty has built more than two hundred works throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia that range from stand-alone structures to a kind of modern primitive architecture--every piece mesmerizing in its ability to fly through trees, overtake buildings, and virtually defy gravity. Stickwork, Dougherty's first monograph, features thirty-eight of his organic, dynamic works that twist the line between architecture, landscape, and art. Constructed on-site using locally sourced materials and local volunteer labor, Dougherty's sculptures are tangles of twigs and branches that have been transformed into something unexpected and wild, elegant and artful, and often humorous. Sometimes freestanding, and other times wrapping around trees, buildings, railings, and rooms, they are constructed indoors and in nature. As organic matter, the stick sculptures eventually disintegrate and fade back into the landscape. Featuring a wealth of photographs and drawings documenting the construction process of each remarkable structure, Stickwork preserves the legend of the man who weaves the simplest of materials into a singular artistic triumph.

Deceptive Beauties

Author : Christian Ziegler
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226982971
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Deceptive Beauties written by Christian Ziegler and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-10-30 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confucius called them the “king of fragrant plants,” and John Ruskin condemned them as “prurient apparitions.” Across the centuries, orchids have captivated us with their elaborate exoticism, their powerful perfumes, and their sublime seductiveness. But the disquieting beauty of orchids is an unplanned marvel of evolution, and the story of orchids is as captivating as any novel. As acclaimed writer Michael Pollan and National Geographic photographer Christian Ziegler spin tales of orchid conquest in Deceptive Beauties: The World of Wild Orchids, we learn how these flowers can survive and thrive in the harshest of environments, from tropical cloud forests to the Arctic, from semi-deserts to rocky mountainsides; how their shapes, colors, and scents are, as Darwin put it, “beautiful contrivances” meant to dupe pollinating male insects in the strangest ways. What other flowers, after all, can mimic the pheromones and even appearance of female insects, so much so that some male bees prefer sex with the orchids over sex with their own kind? And insects aren’t the only ones to fall for the orchids’ charms. Since the “orchidelirium” of the Victorian era, humans have braved the wilds to search them out and devoted copious amounts of time and money propagating and hybridizing, nurturing and simply gazing at them. This astonishing book features over 150 unprecedented color photographs taken by Christian Ziegler himself as he trekked through wilderness on five continents to capture the diversity and magnificence of orchids in their natural habitats. His intimate and astonishing images allow us to appreciate up close nature’s most intoxicating and deceptive beauties.

How Orchids Rebloom

Author : Chuck McClung
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9780368439155
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book How Orchids Rebloom written by Chuck McClung and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-03-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if getting your orchids to rebloom was as easy as following a simple instruction manual?! IT IS THAT EASY! There are three easy steps to happy reblooming orchids: 1) If you know what kind of orchids you have, 2) and you know what the native habitat is like for that orchid, 3) and you reproduce the conditions found your orchid's native habitat, YOUR ORCHID MUST REBLOOM!!!

Masdevallias

Author : Mary E. Gerritsen
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
ISBN 13 : 0881927376
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book Masdevallias written by Mary E. Gerritsen and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 2005 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the indoor plant hobbyist, intermediate orchid grower, or anyone simply "mad about masdevallias," this is a first complete reference to these collectible orchids. An inspiring tribute to their beauty and a practical guide to their care, the book offers detailed advice on all aspects of culture. For those enthusiasts who are up to a challenge, chapters on propagating, showing, and registering masdevallias are also included.

Taylor's Guide to Orchids

Author : Judy White
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395677261
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book Taylor's Guide to Orchids written by Judy White and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1996 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how to plan and maintain an indoor orchid garden, including selecting the right varieties, choosing the proper materials and tools, and protecting the flowers against diseases and insects.

Flowers by Design

Author : Jeff Leatham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781862054998
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book Flowers by Design written by Jeff Leatham and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who do Kate Moss and Jefferson Hack call on to do the flowers for the Paris launch of Another Magazine? Why Jeff Leatham of course...Flowers are THE new element in interior design. Jeff's philosophy of flower display is very simple: he eschews oasis and wire and the trappings of 'unnatural' creations - tipping flowers at unusual angles to reveal their inner beauty, or the structure of the stems, or submerging them so that the blooms are magnified by the vase and the water. Here, for the first time is a book that shows you how to create a stunning relationship between flowers and your interiors. Jeff links colour, fabrics and textures of furniture to the choice of flower used - explaining how to display them and what they should be displayed in. appear inviting in large, small or narrow spaces; master the art of creating floral conversation pieces. Three easy-to-follow chapters ('Simple Pleasures'; 'Deeper, Darker and More Dangerous' and 'Behind Closed Doors') contain inspirational ideas for all rooms and occasions plus essential accents and details. Illustrated throughout with beautiful photography this striking book will inspire the creation of cutting-edge floral designs in their own home.