Woulda been 5 but it was too short. | Orchid Fever (Isis)

Orchid Fever | Orchid Fever (Isis) | Eric Hansen

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	• Orchid Fever (Isis) Eric Hansen Isis, 2001 average customer review:based on 80 reviews
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highly recommended

READ THIS BOOK!!!

Well written and highly entertaining. Orchid Fever is not just a book for orchid lovers (like me) but anyone who is interested in conservation, horticulture, travel, international trade or just likes to find out how the real world operates. Overall a wonderful account of people passionate about plants and bureaucratic insanity.

Woulda been 5 but it was too short.

It has taken me 10 years, but I am now able to buy an orchid plant at Long's, care for it, repot it, and have it bloom more than once under my control and responsibility. I am that much an amateur orchid enthusiast, no foreign travel, no cloning, no $1000 species for me. Certainly no show winners. But orchids thrill me. I have 14 plants (I just bought another one: dayglo green with fuscia petals)all of which are in rather good health. Some have little nubs of flower stems on them.
This wonderful book has inspired me. It has entertained me, and made me laugh too ("What's dog food?"). I have learned so much, and I now feel the depth and tradition and botanical (cellular, even) heritage that motivates and directs the DNA, hypothalamus, and higher-functioning regions of the brain of the orchid-lover. This book and its stories have added a romance and knowledge to my love and care of my plants.

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Orchid Fever

I just loved this book, I have given it as gifts to many people. Even if they are not orchid collectors, it is so interesting to view the lifes of those who do collect orchids. They are a varied group. I think Eric Hansen is such a good writer, the way he sees things in a totally new light. He actually experience the adventures, as a result he is able to give an acurate discriptiong of events. Higly recommend this book.

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orchids are addictive

This is a very interesting book for any plant lover especially those who try to grow orchids. Makes you think twice, maybe three times, about what government can do to the environment and people who really care. Don't trust any government to do the right thing.

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A seductive journey into the obsessive, outrageous, and mesmerizing world of orchids.

From the steaming jungles of Borneo to the hallowed hallways of Kew Gardens, from the clandestine orchid nurseries of Europe to the peat bogs of northern Minnesota, here are luscious, sexy flowers, orchid smugglers, fist-fighting botanists, moths with twelve-inch-long tongues, and government officials who raid orchid nurseries with attack dogs and automatic weapons. Strange tales of insect pollinator fidelity, the orchid ice cream makers of eastern Turkey, and man-crushing killer orchids weighing half a ton are blended with stories about a wide range of gentle people whose passion in life is the creation of scented, fragile flowers.

Eric Hansen spent seven years exploring the far corners of the earth -- marveling at flowers of uncommon beauty, studying the history of the orchid trade, and grappling with the vicious, bizarre, and petty world of plant politics that sometimes makes it impossible to protect endangered species. Hansen brings to life the colorful flowers and the even more colorful people who are attracted to them, as he illuminates a funny, weird, and poignant world of horticultural passion and pathos.

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