Roses for an Empress. Josephine Bonaparte & Pierre-Joseph Redoute.

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Roses for an Empress. Josephine Bonaparte & Pierre-Joseph Redoute.Various authors. An account of the life of Empress Josephine derived from contemporary documents, eye witness reports, letters and memoirs. She was famous for her love of plants and collected many rare ones at her garden Malmaison. Her love of roses was legendary and she commissioned the botanical artist Pierre Joseph Redoute to record all 169 varieties in her garden, many of which are now extinct. All are reproduced in full colour in this book.

wildflowers and aquatic plants for their decorative potential for wallpapers

Today he is primarily remembered as a pioneer orchidologist

Viking Penguin Books

Godwit Books

The mostly hidden associations that plants have with bacteria and fungi are also explored

UK and Timber Press

nearly 200 in total

ISBN 9780300148268

100 drawings and 200 colour photographs

The work introduces all the main conifer families and genera

dust jacket sunned at spine

There is a chapter on how roses have been used in garden design and also one on their medicinal and culinary uses