Gardening with Tulips
Gardening with Tulips

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Publisher: Frances Lincoln

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780711225398

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Presents a fresh vision of how to use tulips in contemporary gardens. A short introduction explores the history of tulips. The author then moves into the garden, to give detailed guidance on how tulips can best be combined with other bulbs, perennials, shrubs and trees. Full growing and maintenance instructions are also provided.

Tulip
Tulip

Author: Liz Dobbs

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2003-03-24

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9780312310554

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Whether you prefer to admire your tulips in the garden or in the house, there are literally thousands of varieties to choose from. Delicate, naturally occurring species tulips, flamboyantly ruffled Parrot tulips, mysteriously colored Viridiflora tulips, and the large blooms of Triumph tulips are just a few of the dazzling possibilities. Whatever your taste, there will be a tulip just for you. This beautiful and informative book, with more than seventy breathtaking photographs, captures the essence of this enchanting flower, tells its history, celebrates its popularity, and reveals why it has entranced and intrigued people for centuries. Clay Perry’s stunning photography is accompanied by practical text with guidance on successful tulip growing, and a multitude of suggestions for making the most of tulips in the garden. For those who are new to the world of the tulip as well as people who are already converts, Tulip will delight, inform, and inspire.

The Genus Tulipa
The Genus Tulipa

Author: Diana Everett

Publisher: Botanical Magazine Monograph

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781842464816

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The Genus Tulipa is the most complete survey of tulip species to date. Each species is illustrated Diana Everett, with accompanying colour photographs of the plants in habitat and distribution maps. The high level of detail provided in this book makes identification possible for the many species of tulips. Additional material includes check lists of tulip species and their synonyms, as well as country by country check list; glossary with diagrams; information on nurseries selling tulips; and full bibliography.

Tulips
Tulips

Author: Z. Botschantzeva

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1982-06-01

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9789061910299

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This text is a taxonomic source for the genus with information on the botanic species in the genus centres.

The Botany of Desire
The Botany of Desire

Author: Michael Pollan

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published: 2002-05-28

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0375760393

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“Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world.” —The New York Times “A wry, informed pastoral.” —The New Yorker The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?

The Tulip
The Tulip

Author: Anna Pavord

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-11-14

Total Pages: 550

ISBN-13: 1526602679

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A revised and updated edition of the internationally bestselling classic Anna Pavord's now classic, internationally bestselling sensation, The Tulip, is not a gardening book. It is the story of a flower that has driven men mad. Greed, desire, anguish and devotion have all played their part in the development of the tulip from a wild flower of the Asian steppes to the worldwide phenomenon it is today. No other flower carries so much baggage; it charts political upheavals, illuminates social behaviour, mirrors economic booms and busts, plots the ebb and flow of religious persecution. Why did the tulip dominate so many lives through so many centuries in so many countries? Anna Pavord, a self-confessed tulipomaniac, spent six years looking for answers, roaming through eastern Turkey and Central Asia to tell how a humble wild flower made its way along the Silk Road and eventually took the whole of Western Europe by storm. Sumptuously illustrated from a wide range of sources, this irresistible volume has become a bible, a unique source book, a universal gift and a joy to all who possess it. This beautifully redesigned edition features a new Preface by the author, a revised listing of the best varieties of this incomparable flower to choose for your garden and a reorganised listing of tulip species to reflect the latest thinking by taxonomists.