Bulbs of North America by North American Rock Garden Society - ISBN: 9781604690798
Paperback
Rock gardeners and travelers planning a field trip to choice plant-viewing sites all over the continent will be inspired by these firsthand accounts. This is a black-and-white edition.

Bulbs of North America

  • Paperback

    308 pages

  • Release Date

    17 March 2009

Summary

North America is home to approximately four dozen bulbous genera. Among these are some very popular rock garden plants, such as Calochortus, Erythronium, and Fritillaria, which have never had anything substantial written about them in book form. Others, including Calydorea, Hypoxis, and Muilla, are not as well known outside specialist collections. The characteristics that make bulbs so desirable in gardens include their great diversity of flowering time, color, size, and form; their ability t…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781604690798
ISBN-10:1604690798
Author:North American Rock Garden Society
Publisher:Workman Publishing
Imprint:Timber Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:308
Release Date:17 March 2009
Weight:417g
Dimensions:17mm x 152mm x 229mm
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Critics Review

“Wise gardeners will do well to heed the informed descriptions and cultivation advice contained here, making note of a plant’s natural habitat before envisioning where it might grow at home.” –Booklist

About The Author

North American Rock Garden Society

The North American Rock Garden Society, with members throughout the world, is devoted to all aspects of growing plants in rock gardens: what they are, where to obtain them, and where to observe them in the wild. The society publishes Rock Garden Quarterly and holds national meetings; more than 30 local chapters in the United States and Canada convene regularly.

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