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Double Flowers: The Remarkable Story of Extra-Petalled Blooms
As long as there are plants and gardens, there will be plant enthusiasts who will want to grow variations, rarities, and oddities, including double flowers. Double flowers are simply flowers with a greater than normal number of petals or petal-like structures. They can occur spontaneously in the wild or can be selected and bred by humans. This beautifully illustrated book, begun by bestselling garden writer Nicola Ferguson before her death in 2007 and completed by her friend, the writer and photographer Charles Quest-Ritson, celebrates some of the many thousands of double-flowered "new varieties" produced throughout history. It discusses how they have arisen; how they are constructed; how and where they will flourish; and the particular charms, advantages, and disadvantages of such varieties for gardeners, flower-arrangers, and pollinators alike.
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Double Flowers: The Remarkable Story of Extra-Petalled Blooms
As long as there are plants and gardens, there will be plant enthusiasts who will want to grow variations, rarities, and oddities, including double flowers. Double flowers are simply flowers with a greater than normal number of petals or petal-like structures. They can occur spontaneously in the wild or can be selected and bred by humans. This beautifully illustrated book, begun by bestselling garden writer Nicola Ferguson before her death in 2007 and completed by her friend, the writer and photographer Charles Quest-Ritson, celebrates some of the many thousands of double-flowered "new varieties" produced throughout history. It discusses how they have arisen; how they are constructed; how and where they will flourish; and the particular charms, advantages, and disadvantages of such varieties for gardeners, flower-arrangers, and pollinators alike.
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Double Flowers: The Remarkable Story of Extra-Petalled Blooms

Double Flowers: The Remarkable Story of Extra-Petalled Blooms

by Nicola Ferguson
Double Flowers: The Remarkable Story of Extra-Petalled Blooms

Double Flowers: The Remarkable Story of Extra-Petalled Blooms

by Nicola Ferguson

Overview

As long as there are plants and gardens, there will be plant enthusiasts who will want to grow variations, rarities, and oddities, including double flowers. Double flowers are simply flowers with a greater than normal number of petals or petal-like structures. They can occur spontaneously in the wild or can be selected and bred by humans. This beautifully illustrated book, begun by bestselling garden writer Nicola Ferguson before her death in 2007 and completed by her friend, the writer and photographer Charles Quest-Ritson, celebrates some of the many thousands of double-flowered "new varieties" produced throughout history. It discusses how they have arisen; how they are constructed; how and where they will flourish; and the particular charms, advantages, and disadvantages of such varieties for gardeners, flower-arrangers, and pollinators alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781910258880
Publisher: Gemini Books Group
Publication date: 06/01/2018
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 6.75(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Nicola Ferguson (1949-2007) was a bestselling garden writer. Her first book Right Plant, Right Place sold nearly half a million copies worldwide.

Table of Contents

Preface 6

Foreword 8

1 Introduction 12

2 The What, the How and the Why of Double Flowers 32

3 The Quaint and Charming 56

4 The Romantic and the Ethereal 100

5 The Formal 140

6 The Showy and Flamboyant 174

7 The Companionable 214

8 The Rare and the Curious 250

Epilogue 286

Index 288

Picture Credits 296

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