Gilding The Lily : Inside The Cut Flower Industry

Name: Gilding The Lily
Brand: Granta Books
SKU: 9781846271748
Price: 2350 KES
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781846271748

by Amy Stewart

Book Details

Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1846271746

ISBN-13 9781846271748

Publisher Granta Books

Imprint Granta Books

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 6th, 2009

Print length 320 Pages

Weight 328 grams

Dimensions 21.60 x 13.60 x 2.10 cms

Product Classification: Retail and wholesale industries Retail sector Gardening: flowers Gardening: flowers and ornamental plants

KSh 2,350.00

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A passionate and informed look behind the scenes of the floral industry to discover the amazing and often draining journey flowers now make from seeds and bulbs to our shops, tables and vases.

A green-fingered gardener, Amy Stewart has always delighted in the sight of freshly cut flowers, but she grew increasingly curious and uneasy about the journey those flowers take to reach her bouquet. In Gilding the Lily, Stewart introduces us to the people, places and plants that make up this multi-million-pound industry, from a lily grower in the American Northwest to the rose fields of Ecuador and the tulip greenhouses in Holland. Gilding the Lily is a page-turning enquiry into the controversial practices that lie behind each bloom, including the treatment of the workers in the fields and greenhouses, the issue of patenting and the use of pesticides, and the financial forces that drive the quest for the "perfect" flower. It is also a wonderful story about the romance and the reality of growingand cultivating flowers.

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