Author: Helen RichardsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780959016116
Category : Orchid culture
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Cultivation of Australian Native Orchids
Author: Helen RichardsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780959016116
Category : Orchid culture
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Cultivation of Australian Native Orchids
Author: Helen RichardsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780959016109
Category : Orchid culture
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
A Complete Guide to Native Orchids of Australia Including the Island Territories
Author: David Lloyd JonesPublisher: New Holland Publishing Australia Pty Limited
ISBN: 9781877069123
Category : Orchids
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The book is divided into the following sections: about Australian Orchids, terrestrial orchids, epiphytic orchids, naturalised orchids. Includes a glossary, index and further reading suggestions.
Australian Native Plants
Author: Mark WebbPublisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643106995
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Australian Native Plants provides a comprehensive guide to the horticulture of our native plants. Based on nearly 50 years of experience at Kings Park and Botanic Garden in Perth, the book describes the necessary growing conditions for mainly Western Australian native plants and covers some of the more technical aspects such as plant propagation and grafting, the use and benefits of tissue culture, methods of seed collection and storage, and the role of smoke in improving germination. Western Australia is home to about five per cent of the world’s vascular plants and contains Australia’s only terrestrial ‘biodiversity hotspot’. Written by experts with an in-depth knowledge of how to grow these plants outside their natural habitat, Australian Native Plants provides the more technically minded professional or enthusiast with information based on decades of research, experimentation and application. It aims to encourage the growing of Australian plants so that they can be used more widely and contribute to interesting, attractive and diverse private gardens and public landscapes in a changing environment.
Orchid Conservation
Author: Kingsley W. DixonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Orchids
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Orchids of South Australia
Author: R. J. BatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Comprehensive guide to the orchids of South Australia. Contains photographs of every known orchid species in the state and includes information on orchid biology, ecology and history. Distribution maps and habitat notes are included for each orchid.
Orchids of Australia
Author: William Henry NichollsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Orchids
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Orchid Grower's Companion
Author: David P. BanksPublisher: Timber Press (OR)
ISBN: 9780881927115
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Growing orchids is a pursuit more than two millennia old. This guide explains, in accessible detail, the natural habitat of some 400 orchid species, hybrids, and variants, providing the information leading directly into practical propagation and cultivation guidance. Illustrated throughout.
The Orchid Thief
Author: Susan OrleanPublisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307795292
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
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
Orchids of Australia
Author: John J. RileyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780691114903
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This magnificently illustrated, up-to-date, and authoritative book covers 150 of the most well known and widespread species as well as many that are extremely rare or were only recently described. John Riley's drawings are not only beautiful but masterpieces of meticulous accuracy: all are anatomically exact, representing the finest collection of illustrations of this flora published to date.