An edition of Double flowers (2018)

Double flowers

the remarkable story of extra-petalled blooms

Double flowers
Nicola Ferguson, Nicola Fergus ...
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An edition of Double flowers (2018)

Double flowers

the remarkable story of extra-petalled blooms

"A brilliantly readable account of double flowers, exploring everything from their many varieties to their biological development, their long history in our gardens and the powerful emotional responses they elicit. This supremely researched book will leave you appreciating double flowers as never before. - Stephen Blackmore, Queen's Botanist and former Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. As long as there are plants and gardens, there will be plant enthusiasts who will be unable to resist what Margery Fish in A Flower for Every Day called 'the charm of the unusual' and who will want to grow variations, rarities and oddities, including double flowers. Double flowers are simply flowers with a greater than normal number of petals or petal-like structures. They can occur spontaneously in the wild or can be selected and bred by humans. In this beautifully illustrated book - begun by bestselling garden writer Nicola Ferguson before her death in 2007 and completed by her friend, the writer, lecturer and photographer Charles Quest-Ritson - the author celebrates some of the many thousands of double-flowered 'new varieties' produced throughout history. She discusses how they have arisen; how they are constructed; how and where they will flourish; the particular charms, the advantages and disadvantages of such varieties (for gardeners, flower-arrangers and pollinators alike)."--

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Publisher
Pimpernel Press
Language
English
Pages
296

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Table of Contents

Introduction
The what, the how and the why of double flowers
The romantic and the ethereal
The formal
The showy and flamboyant
The companionable
The rare and the curious.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
582.13
Library of Congress
SB407 .F36 2018, SB407

The Physical Object

Pagination
296 pages
Number of pages
296

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26966453M
ISBN 10
1910258881
ISBN 13
9781910258880
OCLC/WorldCat
986738980

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL19753411W

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