Author: Michelle de Kretser
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448138442
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
In a corner of south-western France, a young rose grower nurtures a private passion to breed an exotic new flower. But the year is 1789, and the world is about to change... The Rose Grower throws a subtle, slanting light on the underside of history, as a young woman and her family are caught up in the bloodthirsty years of the French Revolution. Her private passion is to create a repeat-flowering crimson rose, the first of its kind in Europe. But, as public events in Paris are duplicated in Gascony, her world turns upside down. An American balloonist falls out of the sky and into her life; while Joseph, a young working-class doctor, is also drawn into her orbit, and finds himself fatally torn between reason and desire, revolutionary zeal and unrequited love.
The Rose Grower
Author: Michelle de Kretser
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448138442
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
In a corner of south-western France, a young rose grower nurtures a private passion to breed an exotic new flower. But the year is 1789, and the world is about to change... The Rose Grower throws a subtle, slanting light on the underside of history, as a young woman and her family are caught up in the bloodthirsty years of the French Revolution. Her private passion is to create a repeat-flowering crimson rose, the first of its kind in Europe. But, as public events in Paris are duplicated in Gascony, her world turns upside down. An American balloonist falls out of the sky and into her life; while Joseph, a young working-class doctor, is also drawn into her orbit, and finds himself fatally torn between reason and desire, revolutionary zeal and unrequited love.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448138442
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
In a corner of south-western France, a young rose grower nurtures a private passion to breed an exotic new flower. But the year is 1789, and the world is about to change... The Rose Grower throws a subtle, slanting light on the underside of history, as a young woman and her family are caught up in the bloodthirsty years of the French Revolution. Her private passion is to create a repeat-flowering crimson rose, the first of its kind in Europe. But, as public events in Paris are duplicated in Gascony, her world turns upside down. An American balloonist falls out of the sky and into her life; while Joseph, a young working-class doctor, is also drawn into her orbit, and finds himself fatally torn between reason and desire, revolutionary zeal and unrequited love.
David Austin's English Roses
Author: David Austin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781870673709
Category : English roses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fully illustrated, the charm of his English Roses comes across on every page, even if the reader has to imagine their scent. The Irish Garden Like its highly-respected companion in the series, Old Roses, this title draws the most useful information fr
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781870673709
Category : English roses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fully illustrated, the charm of his English Roses comes across on every page, even if the reader has to imagine their scent. The Irish Garden Like its highly-respected companion in the series, Old Roses, this title draws the most useful information fr
Empress of the Garden
Author: G. Michael Shoup
Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
ISBN: 9780967821320
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Explores the character traits and growth habits of old roses.
Publisher: Texas A & M University Press
ISBN: 9780967821320
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Explores the character traits and growth habits of old roses.
Growing Roses in Cold Climates
Author: Richard Hass
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816675937
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Describes both traditional and newer methods of winter protecting roses in cold climates, offering an expanded catalog of rose plants, profiles of major clases of roses, and instructions to achive ideal growing conditions.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816675937
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Describes both traditional and newer methods of winter protecting roses in cold climates, offering an expanded catalog of rose plants, profiles of major clases of roses, and instructions to achive ideal growing conditions.
All about Roses
Author: Diana Sargeant
Publisher: New Holland Publishers
ISBN: 9781921517327
Category : Rose culture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Roses have been grown in gardens around the world for thousands of years and are still the most popular flower in the world. When you follow Diana Sargeant's advice in All About Roses, you will grow the most gorgeous roses, easily and naturally. Your rose garden will be a place for you to rest, respite and nurture all your senses. When you grow your own roses you will enjoy a sense of pride each time you look at them. As you walk through your garden, you can savour all the pleasures that roses offer.
Publisher: New Holland Publishers
ISBN: 9781921517327
Category : Rose culture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Roses have been grown in gardens around the world for thousands of years and are still the most popular flower in the world. When you follow Diana Sargeant's advice in All About Roses, you will grow the most gorgeous roses, easily and naturally. Your rose garden will be a place for you to rest, respite and nurture all your senses. When you grow your own roses you will enjoy a sense of pride each time you look at them. As you walk through your garden, you can savour all the pleasures that roses offer.
Growing Wonder
Author: Felicia Alvarez
Publisher: Bloom Imprint LLC
ISBN: 9781736848128
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Do you dream of possessing a magical rose garden or a thriving flower farm? Whether you long to fill your own acreage with roses or consider yourself more of a weekend gardener, Menagerie Farm & Flower's Felicia Alvarez can help make your love affair with roses a joyous and rewarding experience. With her engaging and encouraging advice, Alvarez assures readers that they can grow beautiful roses successfully. Whatever your level of passion, with her twenty years of farming experience Felicia will guide you with sound advice and detailed horticultural knowledge.
Publisher: Bloom Imprint LLC
ISBN: 9781736848128
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Do you dream of possessing a magical rose garden or a thriving flower farm? Whether you long to fill your own acreage with roses or consider yourself more of a weekend gardener, Menagerie Farm & Flower's Felicia Alvarez can help make your love affair with roses a joyous and rewarding experience. With her engaging and encouraging advice, Alvarez assures readers that they can grow beautiful roses successfully. Whatever your level of passion, with her twenty years of farming experience Felicia will guide you with sound advice and detailed horticultural knowledge.
Growing Roses Organically
Author: Barbara Wilde
Publisher: Rodale Books
ISBN:
Category : Organic gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"Growing Roses Organically" Not many gardeners can resist the beauty of a rose-- a flower so divine and graceful in appearance and, in many cases, so wonderfully fragrant that it evokes thoughts of love and romance at first encounter. Many gardeners, however, also see a fussy plant that's hard to grow and needs special attention, as well as a host of chemicals to keep diseases and pests at bay. In" Growing Roses Organically," Barbara Wilde challenges the myth that growing roses has to be a time-consuming task that you can't do effectively without using chemical fertilizers and pesticides. In fact, she takes the intimidation out of growing roses by sharing her well-rounded, holistic approach for success. Wilde starts with tips for choosing healthy varieties, including hints for buying the best bareroot and container plants. She guides you through careful soil preparation and proper planting techniques and offers advice on how to gently intervene when it comes to pest and disease problems. Wilde also demystifies pruning-- a task that perplexes many gardeners. Her step-by-step explanation of various techniques makes this task doable for every gardener, including beginners. You'll also find invaluable information in A Gallery of Roses, an eye-catching identification guide that boasts more than 100 roses best suited for organic gardening techniques. Each entry in the gallery includes a detailed description of the rose and its best uses, as well as ratings for fragrance, disease susceptibility, and shade tolerance. To round out "Growing Roses Organically," you'll discover how to incorporate roses into your garden. Wilde dismisses the notion that you need to grow roses in aformal setting and instead presents four garden designs that incorporate roses with everything from perennials and wildflowers to trees and shrubs. Her design do's and don'ts along with winning plant combinations demonstrate how naturally roses fit into the landscape. In sharing her wisdom and experience, Barbara Wilde shows that growing roses doesn't have to be labor-intensive or frustrating. By choosing the right varieties and providing proper care, roses really can be a welcome part of every garden-- including yours. n0 About the Author Barbara Wilde has been gardening organically since the age of 17, when her Swiss grandmother first introduced her to gardening. As owner of a midwestern specialty plant nursery, Barbara spent 10 years exploring garden design and ornamental horticulture and growing heirloom and European fruits, vegetables, and cut flowers organically. As a garden designer and education specialist for a premier midwestern landscape firm, she developed staff training curriculum and pioneered organic landscaping techniques still in use by the firm today. Barbara has written for "Horticulture" magazine and Rodale publications and is the regular garden columnist for "Indianapolis Woman" magazine. A frequent public speaker on horticulture, she is known for her ecologically sensitive designs that use a wide variety of unusual plants. Barbara currently lives in Paris, where she maintains her own Web site, www.frenchgardening.com. At the site, you can find articles on French gardens, practical gardening advice, favorite plants, kitchen gardening, her life in Paris, and even cooking-- her (barely) subordinate passion. When not writing content for the site, Barbara spends her time traveling throughout France searching for traditional French garden seeds and artisanal products, including tools, books, and decorating items, which she sells on her Web site. She also gardens with her companion, Denis, on their Parisian terrace and on weekends at an old Normandy farmhouse.
Publisher: Rodale Books
ISBN:
Category : Organic gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"Growing Roses Organically" Not many gardeners can resist the beauty of a rose-- a flower so divine and graceful in appearance and, in many cases, so wonderfully fragrant that it evokes thoughts of love and romance at first encounter. Many gardeners, however, also see a fussy plant that's hard to grow and needs special attention, as well as a host of chemicals to keep diseases and pests at bay. In" Growing Roses Organically," Barbara Wilde challenges the myth that growing roses has to be a time-consuming task that you can't do effectively without using chemical fertilizers and pesticides. In fact, she takes the intimidation out of growing roses by sharing her well-rounded, holistic approach for success. Wilde starts with tips for choosing healthy varieties, including hints for buying the best bareroot and container plants. She guides you through careful soil preparation and proper planting techniques and offers advice on how to gently intervene when it comes to pest and disease problems. Wilde also demystifies pruning-- a task that perplexes many gardeners. Her step-by-step explanation of various techniques makes this task doable for every gardener, including beginners. You'll also find invaluable information in A Gallery of Roses, an eye-catching identification guide that boasts more than 100 roses best suited for organic gardening techniques. Each entry in the gallery includes a detailed description of the rose and its best uses, as well as ratings for fragrance, disease susceptibility, and shade tolerance. To round out "Growing Roses Organically," you'll discover how to incorporate roses into your garden. Wilde dismisses the notion that you need to grow roses in aformal setting and instead presents four garden designs that incorporate roses with everything from perennials and wildflowers to trees and shrubs. Her design do's and don'ts along with winning plant combinations demonstrate how naturally roses fit into the landscape. In sharing her wisdom and experience, Barbara Wilde shows that growing roses doesn't have to be labor-intensive or frustrating. By choosing the right varieties and providing proper care, roses really can be a welcome part of every garden-- including yours. n0 About the Author Barbara Wilde has been gardening organically since the age of 17, when her Swiss grandmother first introduced her to gardening. As owner of a midwestern specialty plant nursery, Barbara spent 10 years exploring garden design and ornamental horticulture and growing heirloom and European fruits, vegetables, and cut flowers organically. As a garden designer and education specialist for a premier midwestern landscape firm, she developed staff training curriculum and pioneered organic landscaping techniques still in use by the firm today. Barbara has written for "Horticulture" magazine and Rodale publications and is the regular garden columnist for "Indianapolis Woman" magazine. A frequent public speaker on horticulture, she is known for her ecologically sensitive designs that use a wide variety of unusual plants. Barbara currently lives in Paris, where she maintains her own Web site, www.frenchgardening.com. At the site, you can find articles on French gardens, practical gardening advice, favorite plants, kitchen gardening, her life in Paris, and even cooking-- her (barely) subordinate passion. When not writing content for the site, Barbara spends her time traveling throughout France searching for traditional French garden seeds and artisanal products, including tools, books, and decorating items, which she sells on her Web site. She also gardens with her companion, Denis, on their Parisian terrace and on weekends at an old Normandy farmhouse.
The Rose Doctor
Author: Phd Gary a Ritchie
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781796853636
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
If you grow roses you have no doubt encountered any manner of problems affecting your plants - from diseases and insects to browsing animals, abiotic factors and other agents. Before these maladies can be effectively addressed they first must be correctly diagnosed. That is the subject of this book."The Rose Doctor" is designed around a diagnostic key - a tool for identifying problems using a logical step-by-step process of elimination. Once a diagnosis is made, the reader is directed to a page containing a description of the problem, along with colored photographs, to assist in confirming the diagnosis. Written by a plant scientist and Master Rosarian, "The Rose Doctor" covers a comprehensive range of rose disorders common to North America. Over 70 pages in length, with an extensive list of on-line references, this book is the only one of its kind; a must have reference for both casual and serious rose growers, as well as professional growers, retail nursery workers, horticulturists and Master Gardeners.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781796853636
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
If you grow roses you have no doubt encountered any manner of problems affecting your plants - from diseases and insects to browsing animals, abiotic factors and other agents. Before these maladies can be effectively addressed they first must be correctly diagnosed. That is the subject of this book."The Rose Doctor" is designed around a diagnostic key - a tool for identifying problems using a logical step-by-step process of elimination. Once a diagnosis is made, the reader is directed to a page containing a description of the problem, along with colored photographs, to assist in confirming the diagnosis. Written by a plant scientist and Master Rosarian, "The Rose Doctor" covers a comprehensive range of rose disorders common to North America. Over 70 pages in length, with an extensive list of on-line references, this book is the only one of its kind; a must have reference for both casual and serious rose growers, as well as professional growers, retail nursery workers, horticulturists and Master Gardeners.
Everyday Roses
Author: Paul Zimmerman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781600857782
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Forget the fuss and embrace modern roses as you learn how to grow and care for rose hybrids in a guide that also lays to rest common rose myths and flawed rose care instructions.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781600857782
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Forget the fuss and embrace modern roses as you learn how to grow and care for rose hybrids in a guide that also lays to rest common rose myths and flawed rose care instructions.
Poetry of Roses
Author: Carolyn Parker
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810937369
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
As it was centuries ago for the Persian poet Attar, so it is for us today: The rose remains a flower of mysterious beauty, of many moods, with myriad symbolic associations. Parker celebrates the rose, pairing her exquisite full-color photographs of blooms from her own garden with evocative poems by such diverse writers as Sappho, Emily Dickinson, John Milton, e.e. cummings, T.S. Eliot, and Jorge Luis Borges, among others. 84 photos.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810937369
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
As it was centuries ago for the Persian poet Attar, so it is for us today: The rose remains a flower of mysterious beauty, of many moods, with myriad symbolic associations. Parker celebrates the rose, pairing her exquisite full-color photographs of blooms from her own garden with evocative poems by such diverse writers as Sappho, Emily Dickinson, John Milton, e.e. cummings, T.S. Eliot, and Jorge Luis Borges, among others. 84 photos.