The tulip garden : growing and collecting species, rare and annual varieties
Nicholson, Polly2024
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Tulips are one of the world's most popular flowers, with over 2,500 varieties produced in the Netherlands each year. This spectacular book showcases a unique collection of rare and covetable tulips at Blacklands, the beautiful English country garden of tulip expert Polly Nicholson. Combining the flower's rich cultural history with growing advice, Nicholson provides a comprehensive introduction to cultivating species, historic Dutch and English Florists tulips, and annual garden tulips. Featuring all types of tulip - from wild species tulips to old Dutch cultivars, as well as English Florists, and the ever popular annual garden tulips - she also offers modern context and sensible and practical advice for gardeners, based on her personal horticultural experience. Bringing to life varieties that date back to the 16th century, Nicholson demonstrates how these treasured bulbs and more modern varieties of these enchanting spring flowers can be grown today - whether in herbaceous borders, naturalized in grass, in containers, gravel, meadow settings, or in the garden for cutting. The Tulip Garden is an essential reference for tulip lovers, florists, and gardeners, but also, with newly commissioned photography by Andrew Montgomery, an inspirational resource, tapping into the zeitgeist for sustainable flowers and organic gardening, focussing one of the world's most popular flowers, with over 2,500 different varieties registered and almost 2 billion bulbs produced in Holland each year.
The tulip garden : growing and collecting species, rare and annual varieties / Polly Nicholson ; photography by Andrew Montgomery.
Nicholson, Polly, authorMontgomery, Andrew (Photographer), photographer
London : Phaidon Press, 2024.©2024
261 pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
9781838667689 (hbk)9781838667689
635.93469635.934
English
556184
Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - House and Garden | 635.934 NIC | Onloan - Due: 19 Oct 2024 |