Simon & Schuster's Guide to Orchids

Simon & Schuster's Nature Guide Series

by Alberto Fanfani, Stanley Schuler, Walter Rossi

Brimming with intriguing and practical details and illustrated with 250 beautiful color photos, Simon & Schuster's Guide to Orchids provides everything the enthusiast needs to know about this most colorful and elegant blossom. An informative introduction gives such useful information as morphology of the flower, ecology, classification, and cultivation. The individual entries that follow describe over 160 cultivated species and offer visual symbols for the temperature and light necessary for optimum growth, as well as whether a particular species has a scent. Simon & Schuster's Guide to Orchids is a spectacular and authoritative reference to this exotic and fascinating flower.

Genres: Gardening

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

Reviews

[Christina · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. Weeding my gardening books. Minimal general information, but this book is a handy reference with profiles of over 160 species of orchids. As with other books in this series, the writing is a bit technical, with a lot of botanical terms I’m not familiar with. Color photos of each flower, along with a description and brief information on cultivation. It’s a compact guide, with large photos (most are half a page).

Verdict: keep