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Pocket Guide to Rhododendron Species

2010-07-28T00:00:00-05:00

J. F. J. McQuire and M.L.A. Robinson This handy guidebook highlights the most important morphological features relevant to the recognition and identification of virtually every currently cultivated species of rhododendron. The more than seven hundred photographs in the volume present detailed illustrations of every aspect of the plants, accompanied by ...

Wilson's China

2010-07-28T00:00:00-05:00

Mark Flanagan and Tony Kirkham Edwardian botanist Ernest Wilson was the foremost plant collector of his generation, singlehandedly responsible for introducing more than one thousand plant species to Western gardens, many of them collected during his extensive travels in China. Wilson’s China draws on Wilson’s writings and the authors’ own ...

Wild Flora of Kew Gardens

2010-07-28T00:00:00-05:00

Tom Cope The Wild Flora of Kew Gardens details all plants that have ever been recorded growing in a wild state within Kew Gardens or its periphery, and all natives cultivated in formal beds or other plantings, since the first records of 1779. Nearly 2,000 taxa are documented and illustrated, with ...

New Trees

2010-07-28T00:00:00-05:00

John Grimshaw and Ross Bayton This comprehensive volume, commissioned by the International Dendrology Society, covers more than eight hundred tree species that have been introduced to cultivation in the United Kingdom, Europe, and North America in recent decades. Up until now there has been no comparable source of information. Featuring ...

Official Guide to the Marianne North Gallery

2010-07-28T00:00:00-05:00

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Marianne North, a Victorian adventuress, set out in 1871 on an ambitious expedition to make a pictorial record of the tropical and exotic plants of the world. In the course of her travels, Marianne North produced more than eight hundred paintings of plants, which are now ...