- Paperback: 9999 pages
- Publisher: Pan; 4 edition (12 Feb 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330327747
- ISBN-13: 978-0330327749
- Product Dimensions: 28.8 x 21.2 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Product Description
As part of the "Pan Garden Plant" series, this first volume on perennials covers plants that flower in the spring and early summer. This book includes photographs of over 1250 perennials from around the world as well as text describing the plants origins, characteristics and frost hardiness.
About the Author
In 1975 Roger Phillips began his life’s major work of photographing and publishing pictures of the world’s garden plants. He set out to develop an encyclopedic collection of books to show the difference between plants as diverse as mosses, roses and annuals. His first book, Wild Flowers of Britain (1977), was a huge success, selling 400,000 copies in the first year. He has since written 20 additional volumes (often with his co-author Martyn Rix) selling over 6million copies worldwide. His latest book is Mushrooms. Roger has written and presented two major six-part TV series on gardening (BBC & Channel 4). Famed for his ebullient personality and garish red glasses, he has become a well-recognised figure in the world of gardening.
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Together with its companion, Perennials: Volume 2: Late Perennials (The Pan Garden Plants series): Late Perennials v. 2 this is the gardening book I use more than any other. Produced in the classic Roger Phillips style, it features superb quality colour photographs of an enormous range of perennials, together with botanical details, notes on growing, and, most useful of all, a description of their natural habitat. This is immensely valuable in judging whether a particular plant will survive in my garden, and where to plant it. For example, we are told of Cardamine pratensis (selected at random): " Native of most of Europe, to W Siberia and across North America, growing in damp meadows, by streams and in ditches" For the gardener, he adds, after giving height and flowering time "Very pretty, not invasive, and one of the best species for damp gardens, but may require protection from woodpigeons, which eat the young buds in spring. It is a host of the Orange Tip butterfly. The double form, 'Flore Pleno', has been grown in gardens since at least the mid-17th century". For me this is absolutely ideal, it tells me everything I want to know.
Where a plant has a lot of similar relatives, or where many garden cultivars exist, Phillips uses the tactic he pioneered, of photographing specimens like botanical illustrations, on a plain white background with a scale. Elsewhere, photographs are taken of the plant growing, either in a garden or in the wild.
The grouping is, as usual, by flowering time, which makes for the occasional anomaly, but the excellent index makes this little of a drawback. Plants are listed both by latin name and by "common" name, in the same sequence. An introductory section gives some interesting background facts and advice.
Where a plant has a lot of similar relatives, or where many garden cultivars exist, Phillips uses the tactic he pioneered, of photographing specimens like botanical illustrations, on a plain white background with a scale. Elsewhere, photographs are taken of the plant growing, either in a garden or in the wild.
The grouping is, as usual, by flowering time, which makes for the occasional anomaly, but the excellent index makes this little of a drawback. Plants are listed both by latin name and by "common" name, in the same sequence. An introductory section gives some interesting background facts and advice.
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