Flower Confidential: The Good The Bad And The Beautiful (eBook)

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Award-winning author Amy Stewart takes readers on an around-the-world behind-the-scenes look at the flower industry and how it has sought for better or worse to achieve perfection. She tracks down the hybridizers geneticists farmers and florists working to invent manufacture and sell flowers that are bigger brighter and sturdier than anything nature can provide. There's a scientist intent on developing the first genetically modified blue rose; an eccentric horitcultural legend who created the most popular lily; a breeder of gerberas of every color imaginable; and an Ecuadorean farmer growing exquisite roses the floral equivalent of a Tiffany diamond. And at every turn she discovers the startling intersection of nature and technology of sentiment and commerce.