Orchideen

by Mark Griffith

"A fabulous work. Highly recommended." - Library JournalOrchids were brought to Europe from the tropics and subtropics beginning in the 17th century, and by 1839, English plant nurseries were selling 1,600 different kinds of the flower. Long prized for their exotic beauty and astonishing variety, orchids are the royal family of the plant kingdom. The story of this flower, from the hunt for new varieties in the wild in the 1800s to the development of the more than 100,000 hybrids that exist today, is related in fascinating detail in Orchids .This beautiful book features text by one of the world's foremost orchid authorities alongside spectacular watercolor portraits of prize-winning orchids from the Royal Horticultural Society in London, which spearheaded orchid cultivation in Western Europe beginning in the 19th century. This exquisite collection of paintings commissioned by the RHS every year since 1897 represents the ultimate orchid pictorial history. Now in a reduced format, Orchids is an indispensable sourcebook for those captivated by the beauty and infinite variety of this glamorous flower. AUTHOR Mark Griffiths, one of the world's foremost writers on orchids, has edited and written numerous publications on orchids and horticulture. He was editor of The New Royal Horticulture of Gardening , and was awarded the Garden Writers' Guild Special Award for a Work of Outstanding Excellence for his RHS Manual, Orchids . Griffiths is horticultural correspondent for The Times, London .

Hardcover

First published May 1, 2002

About the author

Mark Griffith is professor of classics and of theater, dance, and performance studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Reviews

[Tisha (IG: Bluestocking629) · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 Stars

I picked up this book at the Art Institute of Philadelphia, a million years ago. Not sure why I never picked it up till now. It was a lovely book. The only problem, for me, was the writing was too small for these oft used eyes. But the pictures were no problem. Gorgeous! Great “coffee table book”.

[Michal Paszkiewicz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful pictures, plenty of historical and scientific information. I was expecting more information on how to take care of various strains of plants, but I guess that was a silly assumption