Short History of Flowers
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Product details
- ISBN 9780711282223
- Weight: 750g
- Dimensions: 154 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 07 Mar 2024
- Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Unravel the extraordinary histories of 60 flowers that shape our gardens.
Have you ever wondered where your favourite garden flowers came from? Where their names derived? Or why some cultivars go in and out of favour? Every flower has a story and in A Short History of Flowers, Advolly Richmond guides you through the most intriguing, surprising and enriching ones.
For example, you’ll find stories of:
- The 18th‑century woman who disguised herself as a man to collect bougainvillea on a global voyage.
- The snowdrop that sparked Victorian mania.
- The daffodil rediscovered after centuries missing from cultivation.
- The lily of the valley that became Christian Dior’s lifelong lucky charm.
- The Californian poppy that travelled from Indigenous medicine to royal heraldry.
Featuring specially commissioned botanical illustrations by award‑winning artist Sarah Jane Humphrey, each entry highlights the plant and the story it tells, bringing its history vividly to life.
Whether you’re a keen gardener or simply curious about the plants that surround you, this book invites you to see your garden, and its flowers, in an entirely new light.
Advolly Richmond OBE is a garden historian, TV and radio presenter and independent researcher in garden, landscape, plant and social history. A regular on BBC Gardeners’ World as well as on BBC Gardeners’ Question Time, she is also the presenter of The Garden History Podcast, an A–Z. She lectures on garden history from the 16th to 20th centuries, and provides one-day courses for interested historians. She is passionate about promoting garden history in all its branches and likes to encourage people to value their garden and landscape heritage. She is a plant loving practical gardener with probably far too many roses and a collection of snowdrops, which kindly share their space with a range of pre-1900 heritage daffodils. She even has a variety of snowdrops named after her. Sarah Jane Humphrey is an award-winning botanical artist who has won four RHS Medals, including the 2023 Gold medal for her collection of seaweed paintings. Much of her work is published in books and magazines and she has an array of high-profile clients, including the Royal College of Physicians, BrewDog, the Eden Project, the Duchy of Cornwall and Jo Malone.
