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Amazon.com: gardening nursery in Amazon.com The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle)  Orchidelirium is the name the Victorians gave to the flower madness that is for botanical collectors the equivalent of gold fever. Wealthy orchid fanatics of that era sent explorers (heavily armed, more to protect themselves against other orchid seekers than against hostile natives or wild animals) to unmapped territories in search of new varieties of Cattleya and Paphiopedilum. As knowledge of the family Orchidaceae grew to encompass the currently more than 60,000 species and over 100,000 hybrids, orchidelirium might have been expected to go the way of Dutch tulip mania. Yet, as journalist Susan Orlean found out, there still exists a vein of orchid madness strong enough to inspire larceny among collectors.The Orchid Thief centers on south Florida and John Laroche, a quixotic, charismatic schemer once convicted of attempting to take endangered orchids from the Fakahatchee swamp, a state preserve. Laroche, a horticultural consultant who once ran an extensive nursery for the Seminole tribe, dreams of making a fortune for the Seminoles and himself by cloning the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii. Laroche sums up the obsession that drives him and so many others: I really have to watch myself, especially around plants. Even now, just being here, I still get that collector feeling. You know what I mean. I'll see something and then suddenly I get that feeling. It's like I can't just have something--I have to have it and learn about it and grow it and sell it and master it and have a million of it.Even Orlean--so leery of orchid fever that she immediately gives away any plant that's pressed upon her by the growers in Laroche's circle--develops a desire to see a ghost orchid blooming and makes several ultimately unsuccessful treks into the Fakahatchee. Filled with Palm Beach socialites, Native Americans, English peers, smugglers, and naturalists as improbably colorful as the tropical blossoms that inspire them, this is a lyrical, funny, addictively entertaining read. --Barrie Trinkle Author: Susan Orlean Paperback: 320 pages Company: Ballantine Books (2000-01-04) (2000-01-04) ISBN: 044900371X List Price: $14.00 Amazon Price: $1.87 Used Price: $0.01 So You Want to Start a Nursery  When Avent announced that he was quitting his job to build a specialty nursery, his former horticulture professor begged his student to reconsider, telling him he couldn't possibly make a profit "without doing something illegal." More than ten years and 20 nursery catalogs later, Avent owns a thriving national business with nearly 30 employees. He wrote So You Want to Start a Nursery to debunk myths about the ornamental-plants nursery business and what it takes to succeed, whether you're a backyard hobbyist or a wholesale grower. (And he still has a clean arrest record.) Assuming that the reader has some basic knowledge about how plants are grown, Avent focuses on the business and planning concerns of the nursery owner. While recounting humorous stories of his baptism by fire as a beginning nurseryman, Avent also provides a primer on the nursery industry as a whole, with discussions of the merits and disadvantages of retail, wholesale, mail-order, and liner operations, to name just a few. Readers of this book will obtain the tools they need to make a business plan of their own. This book is a must-read for horticulture students, industry insiders, and advanced gardeners who dream of turning their passion for plants into a job they love.Author: Tony Avent Hardcover: 340 pages Illustrated Company: Timber Press, Incorporated (2003-07-01) ISBN: 0881925845 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: $14.85 Used Price: $13.89 Secrets to a Successful Greenhouse and Business : A Complete Guide to Starting and Operating a High-Profit Business That Benefits the Environment  According to the author, there are not enough greenhouse growers in the country to be anywhere near the saturation point—making it an excellent business venture for those who love working with plants. His pragmatic no-nonsense guide offers a complete course for such a business venture. He discusses everything: plant containers, buying plugs, propagation, hydroponics, specialty crops, watering and growing care, soil and fertilizer mixes and more. A chapter on greenhouses discusses different types of structures, coverings, heating and cooling systems, and provides basic plans for a 30' x 96' solar greenhouse. Another chapter on insect and disease control outlines an excellent organic program emphasizing prevention, organic sprays, and beneficial insects. He pays ample attention to the business side as well, explaining marketing, accounting, sales, plant delivery, bill collecting, computers, financing, licenses and permits, etc. He even provides a wholesale price lists as guides and a large list of plant buyers and suppliers.Author: Ted M. Taylor Paperback: 154 pages Company: Greenearth Publishing (1997-04) ISBN: 0962867802 List Price: $29.95 Amazon Price: $149.95 Used Price: $95.00 Growing Profits: How to Start & Operate a Backyard Nursery  A backyard nursery is a great business opportunity for the person seeking some level of self-employment. It can be a full-time operation for the entrepreneur, or a part-time enterprise for a stay-at-home Mom, the retiree who wants to supplement a pension, or the landscaper who wants to make additional income by both selling and installing plants.Author: Michael Harlan Paperback: 216 pages Company: Moneta Publications (2000-07-01) ISBN: 0965456773 List Price: $17.95 Amazon Price: $11.89 Used Price: $33.98 Onward and Upward in the Garden  These 14 pieces by Katharine White first appeared in the pages of the New Yorker and were posthumously collected by her husband, E. B. White. They are at once as formal as an English manor house garden, as sensible as the Burpee seed catalog, and twice as delightful as either. Author: Katharine S. White Paperback: 369 pages Company: Beacon Press (2002-04-12) ISBN: 0807085618 List Price: $16.00 Amazon Price: $8.40 Used Price: $3.95 Golden Gate Gardening: The Complete Guide to Year-Round Food Gardening in the San Francisco Bay Area & Coastal California Author: Pam Peirce
Paperback: 397 pages Company: Riverhouse Nursery (1992-12) ISBN: 0932857108 List Price: $24.95 Amazon Price: Used Price: $5.90 Nursery Management: Administration and Culture (4th Edition)  Based on the authors' extensive and varied experiences in the field, input from nursery manager's across the country, and cutting-edge information from regional and state professional associations, this book provides both general and specific information on the full range of topics related to nursery management. Contains extensive lists of references and resources and convenient tables and charts for calculating a variety of measures and values. Management Applied to Nurseries. Selection of a Nursery Site. Organization and Development of the Nursery. Laws, Regulations, and Codes. Financial Management. Wholesale Marketing of Nursery Crops. Nursery Inventory Control. Shipping of Nursery Stock. Nursery Crop Production. Soil and Nutrition Management for Field-Grown Plants. Media and Nutrition Management for Container-Grown Plants. Irrigation of Nursery Crops. Modifying Plant Growth and Development in the Nursery. Controlling Weeds, Insects, and Disease. Nursery Storage Facilities. The Production and Use of Compost. For anyone interested either in starting or managing a nursery. Author: Harold Davidson, Roy Mecklenburg, Curtis Peterson Hardcover: 529 pages Company: Prentice Hall (1999-07-08) ISBN: 0138579962 List Price: $132.00 Amazon Price: $131.97 Used Price: $82.90 Practical Woody Plant Propagation for Nursery Growers  An exhaustive exposition of propagating methods, from growing from seed to cuttings, grafting, layering, and tissue culture. It is based on the actual working methods of successful propagators worldwide and presents detailed explanations and illustrations of the procedures used.Author: Bruce Macdonald Paperback: 660 pages Illustrated Company: Timber Press, Incorporated (2006-10-01) ISBN: 0881928402 List Price: $69.95 Amazon Price: $46.36 Used Price: $54.70 The Biltmore Nursery: A Botanical Legacy  This landmark book tells the story of the Biltmore Nursery in two fascinating ways: a revealing overview history and a complete reproduction of the 1912 Biltmore Nursery Catalog. The history tells the story of the nursery from its establishment in 1889 to its destruction in a catastrophic flood in 1916, and the profusely illustrated catalog offers a guide to the cultivated trees, shrubs and plants of North America during the early twentieth century, with more than 1,700 distinct varieties described. Presented here as never before, Biltmore Estate's rich botanical legacy will resonate with Biltmore lovers, horticulturists and gardeners, botanists and dendrologists, landscape architects, students, and historians.Author: Bill Alexander Paperback: 288 pages Company: The History Press (2007-03-31) (2007-03-31) ISBN: 1596292385 List Price: $26.99 Amazon Price: $18.22 Used Price: $13.70 The Book of Bromeliads and Hawaiian Tropical Flowers (Library of Congress# 00-104739) Author: Florence Parkhurst
Hardcover: 216 pages Company: Mutual Pub Co (2000-06-24) ISBN: 1566473268 List Price: $39.95 Amazon Price: $37.95 Used Price: $29.99 |