Dimensions
189 x 246 x 14mm
Britain and Ireland have fascinating and beautiful wild flowers, but many gardeners are unfamiliar with this precious resource. This guide is designed to introduce some of our native plants, revealing them as useful, charming, disease resistant and hardworking additions to conventional gardens, rather than as threatening weeds. Written with infectious enthusiasm, it celebrates the remarkable qualities of our native plants, and describes their close involvement in our own heritage in the hope that revealing their rich history may help them secure a place in the future. ? Over 200 of the most rewarding and easily grown of our wild flowers are featured, their needs and habits explained, and their historical and cultural significance noted ? Suggestions are given for their individual use in gardens, so that they may contribute to and enhance even conventional settings ? Warnings are included about plants that may behave too wildly ? Species accounts are organized into chapters focusing on the seasons when the plants have their greatest garden value AUTHOR: Rosemary FitzGerald has spent her life immersed in wild flowers, a love beginning in early childhood eventually leading to a career as a professional botanist and researcher, working across Britain and Ireland. She has also run a small nursery with stocks including plants and their garden varieties on the West Somerset coast, where she now works as a garden consultant. ILLUSTRATIONS: 221 colour photographs *
