- Hardcover: 236 pages
- Publisher: Timber Press; illustrated edition edition (Aug 15 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0881926515
- ISBN-13: 978-0881926514
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 18 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 703 g
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#539,719 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #19 in Books > Home & Garden > Gardening & Horticulture > Flowers > Bulbs
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An authoritative reference on two groups of plants deservedly popular as border subjects in warm-climate gardens.Rock Garden Quarterly, Spring 2005 (Rock Garden Quarterly )
This work is recommended for large gardening collections. January Adams, American Reference Books Annual, 2005 (American Reference Books Annual )
This is a must book for everyone interested in these fine garden plants.Rod Saunders, Bulb Chat, December 2004 (Bulb Chat )
This work is recommended for large gardening collections. January Adams, American Reference Books Annual, 2005 (American Reference Books Annual )
This is a must book for everyone interested in these fine garden plants.Rod Saunders, Bulb Chat, December 2004 (Bulb Chat )
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Here at last, these beautiful bulbs are fully described and illustrated. Spring-flowering Chasmanthe is a plant for areas of mild winter, but Crocosmia can endure winter temperatures. They flower from early summer well into fall and provide wonderful displays of warm red and orange when the garden often has little else to offer except annuals. A descriptive list of more than 400 Crocosmia cultivars concludes the complete horticultural account of the genera. Superb watercolors of the species and many of the more important cultivars are complemented by charming pencil sketches of each species in its native habitat.
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Native to the Cape region, the extreme southwestern tip of South Africa, chasmanthes have a longer known history than crocosmias, which occur widely across sub-Saharan Africa. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Native to the Cape region, the extreme southwestern tip of South Africa, chasmanthes have a longer known history than crocosmias, which occur widely across sub-Saharan Africa. Read the first page
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where's the brief, Sep 20 2004
By Greg Speichert "garden guy" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Crocosmia and Chasmanthe (Hardcover)
I couldn't wait to get this book. I really like this groupf of bulbs and I wanted to learn more about growing them and the varieties I could grow and the work being done with them. Well I was in for a surprise. this book does little of that. What it does do is give the reader the history of the plant and its introduction into horticulture. The work that went into it is staggeringbut nothing for the gardener. Infact after reading it I don't think the authors even grow the plants it is treated as more of an object than a plant. this was made worse by no color photos just illustrations. now don't get me wrong they were nice illustrations. but would it have killed you to include some photos. I can onot reccomend this to any gardener unless you are really into botanic history.
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