Eric Grissell

History of Zinnias (eBook, ePUB)

Flower for the Ages

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

. A cultural and horticultural history documenting the development of garden zinnias-one of the top ten garden annuals grown in the United States today.
. Debunks numerous tall tales about the zinnia and works to find the truth behind the origin of the flower.
. Explores the zinnia as not just a flower, but through its deep history is a representation of humankind's quest for beauty and innovation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Purdue University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781557539076
• Artikelnr.: 59618994

Autorenporträt

Eric Grissell was born in Washington, DC, but spent his childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area. After obtaining a PhD in entomology from the University of California, Davis, he began work at the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services identifying wasps, bees, and ants of agricultural importance. He eventually became a research entomologist for the US Department of Agriculture's Systematic Entomology Laboratory, stationed at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. He retired after twenty-six years of service and moved first to Arizona and then to Eugene, Oregon. Although primarily trained as an entomologist, Grissell's second love is botany and horticulture. His first book of garden essays, entitled Thyme on My Hands, appeared in 1986, followed by A Journal in Thyme in 1994. Incorporating entomology, botany, and horticulture together, he published the award-winning Insects and Gardens in 2001 and Bees, Wasps, and Ants in 2010. Grissell has published over one hundred scientific papers on insects and a dozen garden essays for popular horticultural magazines.