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 | This beautiful work by two great Dutch plantsmen presents the largest selection of color photographs of elepidote rhododendron species, varieties, hybrids, and cultivars ever gathered in one volume, a lavish tribute to the most spectacular of flowering shrubs. ...
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 Price: 129.95 $ |  | Bonsai pays tribute to the artistry and design behind these fascinating miniature trees. The text compares the ancient art of bonsai to the traditional arts and focuses on the specific design elements of the bonsai--the roots, trunk, branches, foliage, and container--and discusses how bonsai artists manipulate these elements for a specific effect. Unlike the traditional arts, bonsai requires working with material that is alive and ever-changing, presenting unique challenges and rewards. Featured ...
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Price: 118.76 $ |  | Based on the journals maintained at Greer Gardens, this pedigree book of some 5000 hybrids is organized by grex so that hybrids of the same parents are listed together, with cross-references from the hybrid name. The photographs are all different from those in the first edition. ...
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Price: 87.50 $ |  | Flora of North America Volume 8 is the seventh of 19 volumes on dicotyledons to be published in the Flora of North America North of Mexico series. It treats 680 species classified among 125 genera in 19 families. The larger families covered in Volume 8 include Crassulaceae (Stonecrop family), Ericaceae (Heath family), Grossulariaceae (Currant family), Myrsinaceae (Myrsine family), Primulaceae (Primrose family), and Saxifragaceae (Saxifrage family). Each genus has representative species illustrat ...
Amazon / Oxford University Press, USA / Book
Price: 85.50 $ |  | A revised and extended edition of this classic guide to the larger species of rhododendron, covering every aspect of cultivation, including choice of site and plants, hardiness, and instruction on planting and maintenance. Published at $22.98 Our last copies available at $11.49 ...
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Price: 59.95 $ |  | This book presents 121 plates, all of the subgenera, sections, and series as classified by the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. The text provides an interesting account of the introduction of the illustrated species into cultivation, its history, distribution, habitat, relationships with other species, and its classification.William Curtiss venerable Botanical Magazine , founded in 1787, is one of the oldest regular publications with color illustrations still in existence. In The Illustrated Rho ...
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Price: 42.60 $ |  | The European Garden Flora is the definitive manual for the accurate identification of cultivated ornamental flowering plants. Designed to meet the highest scientific standards, the vocabulary has nevertheless been kept as uncomplicated as possible so that the work is fully accessible to the informed gardener as well as to the professional botanist. This new edition has been thoroughly reorganised and revised, bringing it into line with modern taxonomic knowledge. Although European in name, the F ...
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Price: 42.43 $ |  | Thanks to its dramatic landscape and unique conditions, the Lake District has a long history of distinguished gardens in many different styles. While the lakes and mountains make unbeatable backdrops, the reliable moisture and peaty soil are ideal for a large range of plants. This book features over 40 gardens, all open to the public, that exemplify this heritage. Among the gardens are 17th-century Levens Hall, renowned for its topiary; picturesque gardens such as Rydal Hall; woodland and parkla ...
Amazon / Frances Lincoln / Book
Price: 33.02 $ |  | It is hard to imagine gardens without peonies, flowering peaches, camellias, gardenias, azaleas, wisteria, forsythia, crabapples, and the host of other ornamentals that were introduced first in Chinese gardens. And the development of the modern repeat-flowering roses would not have occurred had the so-called monthly roses not been brought to Europe from China. In spite of the romance and excitement generated by the discoveries of the famous plant hunters in the wilds of China, the Chinese plants ...
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