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Seven Flowers: And How They Shaped Our World by Jennifer Potter
$37.00 NZD
Category: Gardening general
The lotus, lily, sunflower, opium poppy, rose, tulip and orchid: seven flowers, each with its own story full of surprises and secrets, each affecting the world around us in subtle yet powerful ways. But what is the nature of their power and how did it develop? Why have these particular plants become the ...Show more
Seven Flowers: and How They Shaped Our World by Jennifer Potter
$55.00 NZD
Category: Gardening general
The lotus, lily, sunflower, opium poppy, rose, tulip and orchid. Seven flowers: seven stories full of surprise and secrets. Where and when did these flowers originate? What is the nature of their power and how was it acquired? What use has been made of them in gardens, literature and art? These are both ...Show more
Strange Blooms by Jennifer Potter
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
In seventeenth-century Britain, a new breed of 'curious' gardeners were pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into Europe from East and West. John Tradescant and his son were at the vanguard of this change - as gardeners, as collectors and above all as exemplars of an age th ...Show more
The Rose: An Illustrated History by Jennifer Potter
$75.00 NZD
Category: Gardening general
The rose. No other flower has come close to capturing the western imagination in quite the same way. Tulip fever may have flared fiercely and suddenly in seventeenth-century Europe. The Madonna lily may match the white rose for its symbolic purity. But no other flower fascinates like this mysterious flo ...Show more
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