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Author : James McQueen
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Orchids of Brazil written by James McQueen and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 1993 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark W. Chase
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022622452X
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
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.
Author : Marc Hachadourian
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1604698160
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)
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.
Author : Susan Orlean
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307795292
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
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
Author : Jack Kramer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781558590014
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (9 download)
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.
Author : Wilma Rittershausen
Publisher : Quadrille Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781844009398
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
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.
Author : Craig Pittman
Publisher : Florida History and Culture
ISBN 13 : 9780813060569
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)
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.
Author : William Cullina
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618263264
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (632 download)
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.
Author : Patrick Dougherty
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1616891955
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (168 download)
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.
Author : Lauren Gardiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780233005492
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (54 download)
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.
Author : The New York Botanical Garden
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 : 1524759090
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Wall of Orchids written by The New York Botanical Garden and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty beautiful, brilliantly colored prints of rare orchids from the New York Botanical Garden collection housed in a keepsake box to be published in time for the wildly popular annual Orchid Show at the NYBG This elegant box of prints features 20 magnificent reproductions of rare orchid paintings from the NYBG's world-renowned collection. They can be mounted together for a dramatic wall statement or singly for wider range and for gifting. Irresistible for fans of botanical art and orchid lovers in particular and printed on luxurious card stock, they fit both a10 x 12 inch frame or an 11 x 14-inch frame with mat.
Author : Greg Allikas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Four Seasons of Orchids written by Greg Allikas and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superb book presents a selection of the most exceptional orchids anywhere, all of which can be cultivated at home. But unlike other books on this topic, the text is divided by the season in which they flower, making it easy for any horticulturist to plan his or her orchid year with dazzling displays of color.Creative Homeowner Press
Author : Ortho Books
Publisher : Meredith Books
ISBN 13 : 9780897215060
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)
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.
Author : Philip Seaton
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0711242801
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)
Download or read book The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Orchids written by Philip Seaton and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A combination of botanical beauty and practical advice in Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing Orchids will inspire beginners and experienced growers to love and grow 60 beautiful orchids and 12 inspirational projects. From growing from seed to harvesting vanilla pods, the projects will bring the wonderful world of orchids to life and produce confident, keen growers wanting to expand their experience of these exotic flora.
Author : Erica Hannickel
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393867293
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (938 download)
Download or read book Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers written by Erica Hannickel and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award A kaleidoscopic journey into the world of nature’s most tantalizing flower, and the lives it has inspired. The epitome of floral beauty, orchids have long fostered works of art, tales of adventure, and scientific discovery. Tenacious plant hunters have traversed continents to collect rare specimens; naturalists and shoguns have marveled at orchids’ seductive architecture; royalty and the smart set have adorned themselves with their allure. In Orchid Muse, historian and home grower Erica Hannickel gathers these bold tales of the orchid-smitten throughout history, while providing tips on cultivating the extraordinary flowers she features. Consider Empress Eugenie and Queen Victoria, the two most powerful women in nineteenth-century Europe, who shared a passion for Coelogyne cristata, with its cascading, fragrant white blooms. John Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge, cultivated thousands of orchids and introduced captivating hybrids. Edmond Albius, an enslaved youth on an island off the coast of Madagascar, was the first person to hand-pollinate Vanilla planifolia, leading to vanilla’s global boom. Artist Frida Kahlo was drawn to the lavender petals of Cattleya gigas and immortalized the flower’s wilting form in a harrowing self-portrait, while more recently Margaret Mee painted the orchids she discovered in the Amazon to advocate for their conservation. The story of orchidomania is one that spans the globe, transporting readers from the glories of the palace gardens of Chinese Empress Cixi to a seedy dime museum in Gilded Age New York’s Tenderloin, from hazardous jungles to the greenhouses and bookshelves of Victorian collectors. Lush and inviting, with radiant full-color illustrations throughout, Orchid Muse is the ultimate celebration of our enduring fascination with these beguiling flowers.
Author : Barb Schmidt
Publisher : Barbara a Schmidt
ISBN 13 : 9780998337616
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (376 download)
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.
Author : Peggy Alrich
Publisher : Comstock Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Illustrated Dictionary of Orchid Genera written by Peggy Alrich and published by Comstock Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Illustrated Dictionary of Orchid Genera is the most comprehensive and extensively illustrated account of orchid genera to date. Its concise entries provide details of nomenclature, classification, original publication, etymology, and geographic range, along with a brief description and color images of representative flowers."--BOOK JACKET.
