Perfect Plants - Softcover

Rix, Martyn; Phillips, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333653416 ISBN 13: 9780333653418

Publisher: Macmillan, 1996

Synopsis

This guide provides a selection of 1500 of the best, easiest to grow and most readily available garden plants, including trees, shrubs, roses, perennials, bulbs and annuals. Each chapter contains photographs of the plants wither in their habitat or laid out for easy indentification. The book is organized for easy reference, into for example, trees by size, and roses divided into modern, old, miniatures and climbing and arranged by colour and perennials, bulbs and shrubs by flowering time. There is also information on how and where to grow each plant.

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: Macmillan
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333653416
• ISBN 13: 9780333653418
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320