Review
Published under the auspices of the Royal Horticultural Soceity, this is a thorough study of a complex plant family. Packed with information - vanilla is an orchid that has been around for 120 million years - on the characteristics, origins and hybridization of these exotic blooms, the book also includes a guide to growing your own. Burgess's close-up colour photographs of just a fraction of the estimated 25,000 naturally occuring species and countless hybrids are breathtakingly beautiful in their delicate colours and fleshy sensuality, thought, sadly include no views of orchids growing in the wild. (Kirkus UK)
Product Description
A guide to orchids, this text covers the romance of their history, the triumphs of hybridization, and provides the key to growing orchids at home.