Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers Book

We buy more flowers a year than we do Big Macs, spending $6.2 billion annually. We use them to mark our most important events, to express sentiments that might otherwise go unsaid. And we demand perfection. So itâ??s no surprise that there is a $40 billion global industry devoted to making flowers flawless. Amy Stewart takes us inside the flower tradeâ??from the hybridizers, who create new varieties in the laboratory, to the growers, who produce flowers by the millions (often in a factory-like setting), to the Dutch auctioneers, who set the bar (and the price), and ultimately to the neighborhood florists orchestrating the mind-boggling demands of Valentineâ??s and Motherâ??s Day. Thereâ??s the breeder intent on developing the first blue rose; an eccentric horticultural legend who created the worldâ??s most popular lily; a grower of gerberas of every color imaginable; and the equivalent of a Tiffany diamond: the â?? Forever Youngâ? rose. Stewart explores the relevance of flowers in our lives and in our history, and in the process she reveals all that has been gainedâ??and lostâ??by tinkering with nature.Read More

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  • 1565124383
  • 9781565124387
  • Amy Stewart
  • 9 February 2007
  • Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 306
  • First Edition First Printing
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