A complete guide to orchids and their cultivation, these flamboyant, intriguing, beautiful and exotic plants have evolved to become the largest family of plants in the world. This classic book written by two of the world's leading orchid authorities and newly updated helps you identify, choose and display these delightful flowers successfully. It offers a round-the-world tour of the range of tropical and temperate habitats in which orchids are found and explains main orchid types, how early explorers discovered the first tropical orchids and started an orchid craze that continues today. It explains orchid botany and nomenclature, inspirational ideas for growing these plants indoors whether in glass tanks and baskets or on trees and stones, as well as growing orchids outdoors. There is information on basic tools and equipment, compost mixes, potting and mounting, propagation, feeding, watering and light control and dealing with pests and diseases. The Orchid Directory explains their natural habitat, size, flowering time and growing requirements, and all the main genera are covered from Cymbidium to Dendrobium, from Phalaenopsis to Phragmipedium as well as a selection of specialist orchids. There is also an easy-to-use glossary. On each grand very glossy bright white heavyweight page are between one and four colour photographs, many in close up, exhibiting the range of colours of pinks and orange and white and mottles and veins and patterns and blotches and spots, and shapes and textures, standing clear of the foliage and how flowers are produced at various times of the year, blooming again the following year. In 2009, the authors were jointly awarded the Westonbirt Orchid Medal for Outstanding Literary Achievement on the Subject of Orchids. The final inside back cover photograph is so close up you can almost feel the spongy iridescent silver sparkling texture of the pin spots on the beautiful white flower photographed. 256 very large pages, colour.
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For fans of this cult Japanese puzzle here are 365 fiendish sudokus which require all your powers of logic, endurance and concentration to be rewarded with hours of brain-twisting fun. A challenge for every day of the year, this softback book has one clear big puzzle in an elegant layout with an elastic fastener and a full size bright white pencil with a rubber tip slotted into an elastic fastener down the side, so when you change your mind you can easily erase and make your second or third (or fourth) attempt. Mind bending fun with numbers, beautifully decorated cover with black background and pale pink flowers and berries, birds and leaves design for a lovely gift idea.

Gordon Banks arching gracefully through the air horizontally to punch away a ball from the goal mouth. On the ball with Billy Bremner in a facsimile signed article. Shoot's star writers Bobby Moore from West Ham and Alan Ball from Everton reveal their details including who they would most want to meet in the world (Frank Sinatra, Cassius Clay and Brigette Bardot). George Best, Brian Clough and Derby County, Ray Clemence talking soccer, here is all the lowdown on the games and the stars and the champions and the losers and the fans and Gazza and Greavsie. Page after page of colour and facsimile black and white reprints from the pages of the top teenage footie magazine bring back fond memories of when sideburns and haircuts were long, shorts were short, and England's World Cup victory was a recent event. It is a time when a footballer's favourite meal was steak and chips, he drove a Ford Capri and his biggest dislike was ignorant people. Muddy pitches, garish kits, bubble perms, since its launch in 1969, Shoot's magazine had the best articles and funniest features. A nostalgia fest to bring back loads of memories from the Golden Age of Football. 176 big colourful pages packed with photos, 21.6 x 28cm.

The movie Cats was based on the musical inspired by these wonderful and much-loved cat poems by T. S. Eliot, and this edition, illustrated with lovely monochrome drawings, introduces the reader once again to the Bravo Cat Growltiger, the extremely ancient Old Deuteronomy and the Mystery Cat Macavity ("he's called the Hidden Paw"), together with a dozen other colourful figures both enterprising and deplorable. Growltiger, the "roughest cat that ever roamed at large", together with his bucko mate Rumbuskin, terrifies the people from Rotherhithe to Hammersmith but is captured as he serenades the faithless Lady Griddlebone. The Rum Tum Tugger is one of these contrarian characters who always wants what he can't have, in contrast with the jolly Jellicle Cats who just live to dance at the Jellicle Ball. The cat-burglars Mungojerrie and Rumpelteaser need no introduction, while we all know that if a treaty goes missing from the Foreign Office it's certain that the "master-criminal" Macavity, the monster of depravity, will be nowhere near the scene. Bustopher Jones with his white spats is the quintessential cat about town, and the 11.42 Night Mail can never depart without making sure that lovable Skimbleshanks the railway cat is safely on board. 118pp, paperback, black and white drawings.