This illustrated book showcases more than 100 hand-picked garden flowers. Each flower has a double page: the text on the left and the image on the right. This scheme is strictly enforced, leaving enough room for notes or annotations. Fuchsia, for example, shows how small this choice can be (reddish)which today includes more than 100 species with more than 10,000 species.
How they are supposed to “change” our lifestyle can only be explained in a roundabout way. Some play / play a role as medicinal plants, such as yarrow or calendula, others as a source of aromatic substances such as roses and lavender or even as an expensive spice such as saffron: from real saffron (saffron)a type of saffron, 400,000 stigmas must be harvested by hand from about 140,000 flowers for one kilogram of the spice!
The author is a famous architect and author of garden books, at least in England. For each of the plants chosen, it attempts to establish a connection with a person, or with practical uses such as medicine, mythology, literature, symbolism or art. The carnation is the “flower of socialism” and, according to legend, the imperial crown was the only flower in the Garden of Gethsemane that at first did not want to bow its head to Jesus. At the beginning of the nineteenth century Peter the Great had planted sunflowers on a large scale in southern Russia in order to extract the oil. The stunning whiteness of the Madonna’s lily made it a favorite of the symbolism associated with the Virgin Mary. These examples may suffice. The order is not entirely random, but is determined by the history of their migration into “our” gardens: from pre-Christ to the twentieth century. Then they are arranged alphabetically. Not all the species shown are pure garden forms, some are still wild plants such as cornflowers or bluebells even though they are grown in the home garden, and not all are flowers, there are also trees and shrubs such as lilacs or elders.
“Explorer. Communicator. Music geek. Web buff. Social media nerd. Food fanatic.”
More Stories
Harry and Meghan's charity Archewell Foundation has been found in arrears on unpaid fees and unable to fundraise
Sierra Space's Dream Chaser spacecraft prepares for a pre-launch flight to the Cape – Spaceflight Now
Discount game for testing, criticism and review