"From Calvert Crary, author of Flower School and executive director of FlowerSchool NY and FlowerSchool LA, The Encyclopedia of Cut Flowers is a first-of-its-kind, beautiful yet practical guide to buying and caring for 146 different varieties of cut flowers, including information on how to get the most for your money by prolonging the life of your flowers"--

In the pursuit of a better life, seventeen-year-old flower hunter Irinya and her childhood best friend find a priceless silver spider lily, only to have it fall into the wrong hands, leading Irinya on a perilous quest to reclaim the magical flower.

"Brief, lyrical text names the roles flowers play in a garden ecosystem, providing food and shelter and interacting with rain, wind, and light. Bright, close-up illustrations showcase blossoms and the creatures who visit them, including insects, hummingbirds, a mouse, and a frog. Questions on each spread prompt readers to think about the relationships between the flowers and creatures, and information about those relationships is shared in spotlight...

Illustrations by Ippy Patterson. From Baby Blue Eyes to Silver Bells, from Abelia to Zinnia, every flower tells a story. Gardening writer Diana Wells knows them all. Here she presents one hundred well-known garden favorites and the not-so-well-known stories behind their names. Not for gardeners only, this is a book for anyone interested not just in the blossoms, but in the roots, too. Diana Wells is the author of 100 Birds and How They Got Their...

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Create a beautiful, healthy garden that never ceases to amaze with Know Your Soil! Your soil is filled with unique properties that determine what you can grow and how well. Without knowing your specific soil type-clay, silty, peaty, or one of the others-you could be devoting your time, energy, and money to a garden that doesn't bring you results. Understanding your soil and what's living in it, like microorganisms and insects, provides the foundation...

Are you looking for more butterflies and birds in your yard? Do you enjoy seasonal color and beauty? Are you concerned about environmental issues such as water conservation and pollution control? Do you yearn for simple, maintenance-free gardening? Arranged in a question-and-answer format, Got Sun? showcases native trees, shrubs, ground covers, ferns, vines, grasses, and over 100 sun-friendly perennials for your home garden. Illustrated with detailed...

A complete photo guide to all the wild flowers of Britain. With over 1,000 main entries covering wildflowers, shrubs, aquatic plants, grasses, sedges and rushes Collins Complete Guide to British Wild Flowers is a definitive photographic reference guide for flower enthusiasts. Helpful information about habitats of wild flowers and useful tips to aid identification are included along with a botanical hotspots section detailing 100 rarer species. Comparison...

A captivating history of one of the world's most iconic and mysterious flowers Bewitched by a lotus, which flowered from three-thousand-year- old seeds in his English garden, Mark Griffiths set out to track the origins and significance of this sublime plant in this beautifully-illustrated book. The Lotus Quest takes Griffiths from the headquarters of the Linnaean Society in London to a mountaintop in northern Japan. As he travels in search of this...

La bella historia de las rosas se remonta a la más lejana Antigüedad. Esta magnífica flor, cultivada en China desde tiempos inmemoriales, es el símbolo de la belleza de la mujer y del amor que inspira. Los autores nos guían a través del inventario de las rosas, describiendo su belleza, sus caprichos, sus necesidades y sus cualidades. Asimismo, nos revelan la historia de estas maravillosas flores. Encontrará aquí toda la información necesaria...