Download or read book Crinum written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horticulture. Guidebook to gardening with crinum lilies. Includes history, stories, collections and collectors. Many photos and a few charts, maps and graphs.
Download or read book The Bulb Hunter written by Chris Wiesinger and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dubbed the Bulb Hunter in a 2006 New York Times feature story, Chris Wiesinger took his passion for bulbs to vacant lots, abandoned houses, cemeteries, and construction sites throughout the South in search of botanical survivors whose descendants had never seen the inside of a big-box chain store. The vintage specimens Wiesinger sought came from hardy, historic stock, adapted to human neglect and hot climates, reappearing faithfully over decades without care or cultivation. Traveling back roads, speaking to strangers, looking for the telltale color of a remnant iris or lily, Wiesinger started digging, then began trying to grow and share the bulbs he collected. From its humble beginnings on an East Texas sweet potato farm, his Southern Bulb Company has now grown into a full-fledged business known throughout the world, propagating and selling the rare, tough, heritage plants Wiesinger still seeks out and champions. Nicknamed “Flower” by his fellow cadets at Texas A&M University, Wiesinger relates his adventures in bulb hunting, telling stories of the bulbs he has discovered and weaving in his own life story as a student, plantsman, and small business owner. He then teams with veteran horticulturist William C. Welch to provide advice on how to grow and appreciate the bulbs that have been rescued and reintroduced. This “primer” gives gardeners information on what bulbs to grow where, when to plant them and when they bloom, and how to incorporate them with other plants in the landscape. Finally, Welch describes how bulbs have enhanced his personal gardens and brought him and Wiesinger together in the common cause of heirloom gardening. Entertaining, informative, and loaded with beautiful photographs, The Bulb Hunter is sure to be a favorite of gardeners and plant lovers everywhere.
Download or read book Hatch s Perennials Crinum Eucomis Lycoris Muscari and other bulbs written by Laurence C. Hatch and published by TCR Press. This book was released on 2016-04-10 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many bulbs and corms make lovely, ideal herbaceous perennials and can persist for many years. This cultivar encyclopedia covers 135 cultivars of Crinum, 21 Eranthis, 69 Eucomis, 400+ Lilium, 77 Lycoris, 81 Muscari, and 52 Zephanthes described in detail, often with histories and taxonomic notes. This volume is part of Hatch's Perennials 20016-2017, the largest project ever to catalog garden varieties of hardy herbaceous perennials and now with over 1200 pages of content available.
Download or read book CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants written by Umberto Quattrocchi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 4038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as a reference to be used within University, Departmental, Public, Institutional, Herbaria, and Arboreta libraries, this book provides the first starting point for better access to data on medicinal and poisonous plants. Following on the success of the author's CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names and the CRC World Dictionary of Grasses, the author provides the names of thousands of genera and species of economically important plants. It serves as an indispensable time-saving guide for all those involved with plants in medicine, food, and cultural practices as it draws on a tremendous range of primary and secondary sources. This authoritative lexicon is much more than a dictionary. It includes historical and linguistic information on botany and medicine throughout each volume.
Download or read book Deep Rooted Wisdom written by Augustus Jenkins Farmer and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents traditional and time-honored methods for gardening, including holistic solutions to insects and weeds, building fertile soils, saving heirloom seeds, and using garden materials for trellises and sculptures.
Download or read book Identification Selection and Use of Southern Plants for Landscape Design written by Neil G. Odenwald and published by Claitor's Law Books and Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlighting more than 1,000 plants--from trees and shrubs to vines and grasses--this updated edition of Odenwald and Turners guide keeps with a traditional emphasis on the practical use of plants to solve and prevent landscape design problems.
Download or read book Bulbs for Warm Climates written by Thad M. Howard and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bulb gardening in the southwestern and southern United States presents challenges unknown in cooler climates. Bulbs that turn Holland into a kaleidoscope of color droop and fade in our mild winters, hot summers, and uncertain rainfall. Yet hundreds of native and naturalized species of bulbs thrive in these same conditions and offer as many colors, shapes, and fragrances as even the most demanding gardener desires. These are the bulbs that Thad Howard describes in this comprehensive guide to bulbs that will grow in USDA gardening zones 8 and 9. Writing from more than forty-five years’ experience in collecting and cultivating bulbs, Howard offers expert advice about hundreds of little-known, hybrid, and common species and varieties that grow well in warm climates. His species accounts, which are grouped by family, describe each plant and its growing requirements and often include interesting stories from his collecting expeditions. Lovely color photos illustrate many of the species. Howard also gives reliable information about refrigerating bulbs, using them in the landscape and in containers, choosing scented ones, making potpourri, buying, collecting, cultivating, and hybridizing bulbs, and dealing with pests and diseases. He concludes with lists of plant societies and suppliers and a helpful glossary and bibliography.
Download or read book Plants of Southern Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Garden Bulbs for the South written by Scott Ogden and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are hundreds of choice bulbs that revel in southern warmth and humidity, and Scott Ogden profiles the best of them in this fascinating, comprehensive volume. In a series of chapters that takes us through the gardening year, Ogden introduces the plants that help to give southern gardens their distinct regional flavor, many with charmingly descriptive names: rain lilies, oxblood lilies, jonquils, crinums, and scores of others. Weaving in bits of history and lore, Ogden details each plant's appearance and growing requirements. Originally published to widespread acclaim in 1994, Garden Bulbs for the South has been updated and significantly expanded in this edition to include information on new varieties as well as nearly one hundred new photographs. This book is only available through print on demand. All interior art is black and white.
Download or read book Abundant Beauty written by Marianne North and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1871, Marianne North, a brilliant artist with a keen interest in botany, set-forth to travel the world on a quest to paint indigenous plants in their natural habitat. Encouraged by her friend Charles Darwin, North travelled by boat, train, mule, foot and palanquin to every continent except Antarctica. She circled the globe twice over fifteen years and accumulated an extensive and valuable collection of more than eight hundred paintings, which today comprise the esteemed Marianne North Gallery at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, London. North--high-spirited, indefatigable, and brave--also kept detailed journals, which were posthumously published in three volumes in the late 1800s. Abundant Beauty collects the most engaging writings from those journals in one edition, including rich descriptions of botanica and delightful accounts of local people and customs from her sometimes dangerous travels. Abundant Beauty is a fascinating and informative read for botanists, gardeners, historians, and armchair travellers.
Download or read book Inventory written by and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Greenhouse Hot House and Stove Including Selected Lists of Species of Exotic Flowering Plants and Directions for Their Cultivation With Plates written by Charles Macintosh (Botanist.) and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The greenhouse hot house and stove written by Charles McIntosh and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inventory written by United States. Agricultural Research Service. Plant Science Research Division and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amaryllidaceae written by Inger Nordal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1982 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mansfeld s Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops written by R. Büttner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-04-10 with total page 3698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions by numerous experts
Download or read book The Alkaloids Chemistry and Pharmacology written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Bisbenzylisoquinoline Alkaloids, reviewed in Vols. 7, 9, 13, and 16 of this treatise, represent the largest group among the isoquinoline alkaloids. Bisbenzylisoquinoline alkaloids tubocurarine, thalicarpine, tetrandrine, and cepharanthine also have interesting pharmacological properties, and for these reasons this group of alkaloids is again updated, covering in the Appendix the pertinent literature until 1985. Indole alkaloids of the rare genus Pauridiantha are presented here for the first time under the title “The Alkaloids from Pauridiantha"; these alkaloids are found almost exclusively in Madagascar, where plant extracts are used by the natives for medicinal purposes. “The Amaryllidaceae Alkaloids," reviewed in Vols. 6, 11, and 15 of this treatise, have been updated, and several new alkaloids of this class are listed. Occurrence, spectral properties, structure, synthesis, and biosynthesis of these alkaloids are covered in these chapters, and pharmacological properties whenever known are reported.
