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Green Flowers: Unexpected Beauty for the Garden, Container or Vase
Green in the garden is at once the most common color of foliage and the rarest color found in flowers. Whether you're a home gardener looking for a jolt of freshness or a floral designer seeking inspiration, this charming collection of unexpected
plants provides a palette of flowering greens for year-round display.
Combining Marie O'Hara's sumptuous photography and Alison Hoblyn's evocative text, Green Flowers explores the history, botany, care, and cultivation of green-flowered plants. The hand-picked selection includes trees, grasses, vines and climbers, annuals, perennials, bulbs, wildflowers, exotics, orchids, edible plants, and water garden plants. The appeal of the selection is Jack-in-the-pulpit provides curiosity; fritillaries and columbines lend quiet beauty; and green roses, hellebores, and irises are an excellent foil to their more colorful companions. Eighty-four plants are included in all. Complete tips on growing and arranging the plants are given for each entry, as well as an account of the interesting myths, history, and lore.
plants provides a palette of flowering greens for year-round display.
Combining Marie O'Hara's sumptuous photography and Alison Hoblyn's evocative text, Green Flowers explores the history, botany, care, and cultivation of green-flowered plants. The hand-picked selection includes trees, grasses, vines and climbers, annuals, perennials, bulbs, wildflowers, exotics, orchids, edible plants, and water garden plants. The appeal of the selection is Jack-in-the-pulpit provides curiosity; fritillaries and columbines lend quiet beauty; and green roses, hellebores, and irises are an excellent foil to their more colorful companions. Eighty-four plants are included in all. Complete tips on growing and arranging the plants are given for each entry, as well as an account of the interesting myths, history, and lore.
- GenresGardening
183 pages, Hardcover
First published January 15, 2009
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November 6, 2009
When I saw this book, my first impression was that the topic might be too narrow.
Incorrect.
Excellent book packed with color photos and descriptions of garden gems.
I am embarrassed by how few of these treasures I have in my own garden.
Many of them are not hardy here.
And of those that are hardy here, most are not sold by local vendors.
It encourages me to redouble my efforts to seek out valuable additions to the garden.
Incorrect.
Excellent book packed with color photos and descriptions of garden gems.
I am embarrassed by how few of these treasures I have in my own garden.
Many of them are not hardy here.
And of those that are hardy here, most are not sold by local vendors.
It encourages me to redouble my efforts to seek out valuable additions to the garden.
March 2, 2010
This book is good for photographers, gardeners, and poets. Every flower is well-photographed; he picture of "bird flower" is particularly arresting. The names of these flowers read like poetry: chocolate soldiers, love-lies-bleeding, kangaroo paw ,Texas bluebell, silk tassel bush, teasel,rose plantain, herb Paris, and rose plantain. I am left with a singular desire to smell green lavender and the green China rose.
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