Prized for their exotic beauty and astonishing variety, orchids are the royal family of the plant kingdom. Found in a dazzling array of forms and colors, orchids -- hard to obtain and harder still to maintain -- are treasured as the rarest and most exclusive of plants. This glorious volume illustrates the most exquisite specimens of the flower with botanical artworks from the unrivaled collection of the Royal Horticultural Society in England. Reproduced here for the first time are the stunning watercolor portraits commissioned for the Society's prize-winning orchid every year since 1897. These and other spectacular illustrations combine with a text by one of the world's foremost experts on orchids to make this the ultimate pictorial history and reference on the most glamorous flower of all.
- ISBN10 1902686403
- ISBN13 9781902686400
- Publish Date 8 November 2004 (first published 1 May 2002)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 June 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Scriptum Editions
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 336
- Language English