flowers

A richly illustrated comprehensive guide to floral design that discusses tools, containers, and techniques; examines the basic design elements; presents ideas for holiday, wedding, home, and gift designs; and provides plant directories, one arranged alphabetically and one by color and characteristics.

Describes different kinds of flowers around the world, the environments in which flowers grow, the process by which they grow, and ways humans use them.

A collection of fourteen short fables each describing a different flower.

Practical information about selecting and finding plants to dry, how to pick and dry them, and decorative uses.

Suggestions for buying and caring for flowers and plants and for using them to enhance one's home or for special occasions.

Brief text accompanies photographs which record the development, function, and fertilization of a flower and illustrate the work of the wind and insects in pollination.

Contains two programs which explore spiders and flowers.

Presents the symbolic meanings of hundreds of flowers, plants, trees, and leaves, and includes more than twenty flower-related poems by such authors as John Keats and William Wordsworth.