Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Orchids will inspire beginners and experienced growers to love and grow 60 beautiful orchids and 12 inspirational projects.

The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Orchids: The Art and Science to Grow Your Own Orchids (Volume 6) (Kew Experts, 6)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Seaton, Philip

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Gardening & Landscape Design

White Lion Publishing

*Includes 100 color images.
Japanese manga, anime, music, cinema, television dramas, and computer games have gained many international fans. Recognizing the global appeal of Japanese popular culture, since the early 2000s the Japanese government has promoted popular culture exports and developed a national branding strategy using the slogan “Cool Japan.” In 2004, the large numbers of Japanese people who visited South Korea after watching the Korean television drama Winter Sonata caught the Japanese government’s attention. In 2005, the Japanese government officially recognized that Japanese popular culture had another potential: to increase international visitor numbers to Japan and energize the domestic tourism industry.
The term used in Japan to describe this form of tourism induced by popular culture is kontentsu tsurizumu, “contents tourism”—defined as travel behavior motivated fully or partially by narratives, characters, locations, and other creative elements of popular culture forms, including film, television dramas, manga, anime, novels, and computer games.
This book presents a comprehensive theoretical and historical overview of the phenomenon of contents tourism in Japan. Government, mass media, and scholarly interest in contents tourism is relatively new, and in its modern guise contents tourism behavior is closely associated with digital technology, the Internet, and social media.
The rich history of derivative works, parodies, and multiuse of the same contents in a media mix enriched by the highly popular formats of anime and manga led Japanese scholars to seek a different approach to analyzing the links between popular culture and tourism.
Scholars and those working in creative industries settled on the concept of “contents,” and focused on asking how and why particular creative elements resonated with fans and how fans’ interests in a “narrative world”—whether fantasy, fictional, or even largely non-fictional—could inspire travel to actual places, which came to be referred to as “sacred sites” by fans.
This book presents a vast range of works, artists and contents that have generated “sacred sites” across the length and breadth of Japan. Some sets of contents trigger tourism over only a short time period, while others have been inducing tourism for decades or even centuries.
Contents Tourism in Japan is a groundbreaking book in an important and rapidly emerging area of scholarly, media, political and business interest. It will be of interest primarily to scholars and practitioners with a specialization in tourism and media, but also to those studying contemporary popular culture in Japan and East Asia.

Contents Tourism in Japan: Pilgrimages to "Sacred Sites" of Popular Culture

Business & Money

Yamamura, Takayoshi

Sugawa-Shimada, Akiko

Industries

Cambria Press

Written for the amateur and the professional without access to sophisticated laboratory equipment and chemicals, 'Growing Orchids from Seed' contains all you need to know to become an expert! Careful guidelines are given for buying and making equipment, pollinating orchid flowers, harvesting and storing seed, successful germination, transplanting seedlings, and growing them on to healthy plants.

Growing Orchids from Seed

Science & Math

Ramsey, Margaret

Biological Sciences

Lavishly illustrated, Growing Hardy Orchids highlights over one hundred and fifty species of hardy orchids in North America, Europe, and Australia that will thrive in temperate climates with little or no protection. Orchids have enormous horticultural appeal and are widely cultivated at home, so gardeners seeking to beautify their yards will delight in this well-researched and practical step-by-step guide. 
Focusing on the cultivation of orchids in greenhouses, pots, and gardens, Growing Hardy Orchids offers a wealth of advice on planting seedlings, ensuring nutritional needs will be met, and preventing pests and diseases, all clearly explained through the basics of orchid structure and life history. In addition to an abundance of practical cultivation information, the book provides timely accounts of conservation and attempts to reintroduce native orchids back into the wild. The authors are among the world’s foremost orchid experts, and this colorful guide will enable even the humblest beginner to enjoy orchids in the garden.

Growing Hardy Orchids (Kew Growing)

CRIBB, PHILLIP

Ramsay, Margaret

Haggar, John

Originally published in English, Cultivo de Orquídeas por Semillas (Growing Orchids from Seed) contains all you need to know to become an expert. Throughout the book there are step by- step coloured drawings and photographs to teach you how to grow orchids confidently, successfully and professionally. Cultivo de Orquídeas por Semillas is written for both the amateur and the professional, without access to sophisticated laboratory equipment and chemicals.

Cultivo de Orquídeas por Semillas: Growing Orchids from Seed - Spanish-language Edition

Many a budding gardener has been tempted by the elegant orchids peeking out of the floral sections of grocery stores or lined up at a nursery. But too often, new orchid owners are faced with a “now what?” moment once the plant is set up at home. Orchids have a reputation for being challenging to cultivate but in reality, their care isn’t difficult—it’s just different. Growing Windowsill Orchids is an easy-to-follow, nontechnical guide to caring for these popular plants. This new edition is expanded to include updated information on how to choose the best plant, how to look after your orchid when it has finished flowering, and how to get it to flower again year after year. Philip Seaton draws on more than thirty years of experience to help you bring out the best in your orchids. He looks specifically at indoor cultivation with advice on the best place to grow your plants in the home, how frequently to water and feed your plants, and how to keep them free from both disease and overly curious pets. And for readers who wish to learn more about their orchids, Seaton delves into the basis of orchid biology, conservation, and how plants get from the nursery to your home or office. With step-by-step instructions and more than one hundred color photographs and drawings, Growing Windowsill Orchids is the perfect primer on everything the orchid novice needs to cultivate these perennial favorites.

Growing Windowsill Orchids

Many a budding gardener has been tempted by the elegant orchids peeking out of the floral sections of grocery stores or lined up at a nursery. But too often, new orchid owners are faced with a “now what?” moment once the plant is set up at home. Orchids have a reputation for being challenging to cultivate, but in reality, their care isn’t difficult—it’s just different. Growing Windowsill Orchids is an easy-to-follow, nontechnical guide to caring for these popular plants. This new edition is expanded to include updated information on how to choose the best plant, how to look after your orchid when it has finished flowering, and how to get it to flower again year after year. Philip Seaton draws on more than thirty years of experience to help you bring out the best in your orchids. He looks specifically at indoor cultivation with advice on the best place to grow your plants in the home, how frequently to water and feed your plants, and how to keep them free from both disease and overly curious pets. And for readers who wish to learn more about their orchids, Seaton delves into the basics of orchid biology, conservation, and how plants get from the nursery to your home or office. With step-by-step instructions and more than one hundred photographs and drawings, Growing Windowsill Orchids is the perfect primer on everything the orchid novice needs to cultivate these perennial favorites.

Growing Windowsill Orchids: Second Edition (Kew - Kew Growing)

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