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Home Gardener's Orchids: Selecting, growing, displaying, improving and maintaining orchids by David Squire at Abbey's Bookshop,
Home Gardener's Orchids: Selecting, growing, displaying, improving and maintaining orchids
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David Squire

Home Gardener's Orchids

Selecting, growing, displaying, improving and maintaining orchids

David Squire

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English
Creative Homeowner Press,U.S.
05 April 2016
Gardening: flowers
Series: Specialist Guide
Orchids have a reputation for being hard to grow, but this comprehensive manual will lead gardeners straight to the best variety to cultivate in their climate, and provide all the necessary information to make their flowers flourish. Dozens of dazzling photographs showcase many of these exotic blooms, while detailed sections discuss how to raise them indoors and in growing cases, as well as in greenhouses, and give plenty of advice on watering, misting, composts, heating and cooling, repotting, and dealing with pests and diseases. This remarkable illustrated A-to-Z features important tips for every orchid, and includes notes on whether it's easy to grow and where to grow it, what temperature it needs, and much more
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Imprint:   Creative Homeowner Press,U.S.
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 279mm,  Width: 216mm,  Spine: 7mm
Weight:   367g
ISBN:   9781580117470
ISBN 10:   1580117473
Series:   Specialist Guide
Pages:   80
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

David Squire is an experienced gardening writer and editor. Having contributed to numerous gardening magazines he is the author of more than 80 gardening and plant-related books including four titles in the Home Gardener's Specialist Guide series. David trained as a horticulturist at the Hertfordshire College of Agriculture and at the Royal Horticultural Society, where he was awarded the Wisley Diploma in Horticulture. He was awarded an N.K. Gould Memorial Prize for his collection of herbarium specimens of native British plants which, in 2005, was accepted by the Booth Museum of Natural History to become library and museum exhibits. He has a passionate interest in the uses of native plants, whether for eating and survival, or for their historical roles in medicine, folklore and customs.

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