Orchids have been cultivated at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, for more than two centuries, resulting in one of the world’s finest collections. This breathtaking set celebrates those beguiling plants with a paperback that tells the tale of 40 different specimens, enhanced with classic texts and letters from Kew’s archives and botanical illustrations by great orchid artists. In addition, this handsome collector’s box includes 40 beautiful frameable prints.
Based on the unique collection of orchids in Britain’s famed Kew Gardens, this stunning boxed set features a fascinating book plus 40 frameable prints.
Orchids have been cultivated at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, for more than two centuries, resulting in one of the world’s most diverse and comprehensive collections. This breathtaking set celebrates those beguiling plants—and the “orchidmania” among gardeners that persists till today. A paperback tells the tale of 40 different specimens, enhanced with classic texts and letters from Kew’s archives and botanical illustrations by such great orchid artists as John Day and Walter Hood Fitch, Sarah Drake, and Marianne North. Forty of the best artworks have also been turned into separate prints, presented with the book in a handsome collector’s box.
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Enhanced with notes and letters held in Kew's archives and illustrations, this is an exceptionally beautiful book on an extraordinary plant.
Disa Cymbidium Grammangis Dendrobium Masdevallia Dracula
Bulbophyllum Phalaenopsis Oncidium Vanilla Cattleya Prosthechea
Laelia Paphiopedilum Phragmipedium Stanhopea Ophrys Grammatophyllum
Aerides Dactylorrhiza Zygopetalum Drakaea Rhizanthella Brassavola
Epidendrum Stelis Thelymitra Coelogyne Eulophia Taprobanea
Angraecum Vanda.
Lauren Gardiner is Curator of the Cambridge University Herbarium and a member of the RHS Orchid Committee. She previously worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where she specialized in the conservation of Madagascan plants, including orchids and palms.
Phillip Cribb is a leading specialist on the taxonomy and conservation of orchids. He was Deputy Keeper of the Herbarium and Curator of the Orchid Herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, until his retirement in 2006.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a world-famous centre for botanic knowledge. It holds the most diverse living orchid collection in the world, and the largest and most comprehensive orchid herbarium, with over 400,000 specimens preserved.
