Perennials: Volume 2 Late Perennials: v. 2 - Softcover

Rix, Martyn; Phillips, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330327755 ISBN 13: 9780330327756

Publisher: Pan, 1993

Synopsis

As part of the "Pan Garden Plant" series, this second volume on perennials covers plants that flower in the late summer and autumn. This book includes photographs of over 1250 perennials from around the world, both wild and cultivated, as well as text describing the plant's origins, characteristics, frost hardiness and favoured growing conditions. Volume one of this series looks at early perennials. Roger Phillips won the Andre Simon Prize for "Wild Food" in 1983 and is the author of "Wild Flowers", "Trees", "Mushrooms" and "Roses and Shrubs".

About this title

About the Authors

Martyn Rix is a leading botanist, plant collector, gardener, independent botanical advisor and writer. He and award-winning photographer Roger Phillips have collaborated on over twenty-five books such as Vegetables.

Roger Phillips was an award-winning photographer with a reputation spanning nearly fifty years. In 1975, he began his life's major work of cateloguing the world's garden plants, setting out to develop an encyclopedic collection of books to show the difference between plants as diverse as mosses, roses and annuals.

Roger consistently pioneered the use of colour photography for the reliable identification of natural history subjects, and wrote more than forty works dedicated to this purpose, including Vegetables; Mushrooms; Wild Food; Trees; and the seminal Wild Flowers: of Britain and Ireland, which sold almost half a million copies in its first year alone, and has gone on to become the bible for anthophiles across the Isles.

Roger wrote and presented two major six-part TV series on gardening for the BBC and Channel 4. Famed for his ebullient personality and trademark red glasses, he was a well-recognised figure in the world of gardening, and he received an MBE for his work on London’s garden squares. He died in November 2021.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pan
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330327755
• ISBN 13: 9780330327756
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256