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by Christopher Lloyd (Author)
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  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Timber Press (OR); Reprint edition (Jul 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0881927473
  • ISBN-13: 978-0881927474
  • Product Dimensions: 24.1 x 17.5 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 392,943 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A powerfully influential and beautiful book, 5 Sep 2000
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This review is from: Christopher Lloyd's Garden Flowers: Perennials, Bulbs, Grasses, Ferns (Hardcover)
...Christopher Lloyd's new book is full of such revelatory challenges to orthodoxy. His criticisms of plants, plant combinations, and flower colours are blunt, powerful, and unapologetically dogmatic. It is wonderful to read him describing a widely-grown euphorbia as a "miserable little weed" for example, or to find him writing off all globe thistles in a few sentences, or savaging the pink of many sidalceas: his views are a powerful, joyous combination of perspicacity and iconoclasm. This book, the product of his lifetime as a gardener and plantsman, a lifetime spent with his critical faculties constantly engaged, provides an invaluable and robust guide to the plants that are really worth one's time and effort. It reasserts the importance of colour in the garden, while also promising to save the gardener years of fruitless experimentation. It is impossible not to be affected by the persuasiveness of its views. It is surely going to be among the most influential gardening books for a generation.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The garden book we've always wanted, 10 Feb 2008
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Following a short but informative introduction the main body of the book is arranged alphabetically by plant genus, wherein there is a general description followed by an assessment of each species or variety
of that genus. The book concludes with a glossary and an index to plants and photographs. The book is beautifully illustrated with in excess of eighty full and half page colour photographs depicting plants singly and in stunning combination.

Unlike any other gardening "encyclopaedia" Christopher Lloyd's Garden Flowers is a personal account. Yes it is full of information about the plants, size, colour and so forth, but it is honest and forthright in its descriptions. It is typical of his work; in discussing plants he takes no prisoners, and he is not afraid to express his opinions; one might not always agree with him, but such was the stature of the man that I am sure he would not expect one to.

What can one say but to endorse the review by "A Customer". Christopher Lloyd is always a delight to read such that I am sure even a non-gardener would fine his writings pleasurable. It is his combination of informed authority, open mindedness, fearlessness, adventurousness, his passion for plants and gardening and his wit which make his writings such a joy. Christopher Lloyd was one of our greatest plantsmen and garden writers, and this is perhaps the book we've always wanted from him, how fortunate we are now to be able to enjoy it.
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