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The Gardener's Guide to Growing Hellebores Graham Rice

The Gardener's Guide to Growing Hellebores By Graham Rice

The Gardener's Guide to Growing Hellebores by Graham Rice


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'The Gardener's Guide to Growing Hellebores' features a wealth of practical advice on the cultivation and propagation of these increasingly popular plants.

The Gardener's Guide to Growing Hellebores Summary

The Gardener's Guide to Growing Hellebores by Graham Rice

The Gardener's Guide to Growing Hellebores features a wealth of practical advice on the cultivation and propagation of these increasingly popular plants. The book contains jargon-free accounts of species in the wild, descriptions of the varieties currently being grown, advice on breeding your own, and most importantly, an extensive chapter on associating hellebores with other plants and arranging groupings for maximum effect in the garden. With contributions from other hellebore enthusiasts and accounts of the work of recent hellebore pioneers, this is a truly comprehensive and up-to-date account of these beautiful plants. No gardener who loves spring flowers will want to be without this lively, authoritative and inspirational book.

The Gardener's Guide to Growing Hellebores Reviews

"'A first rate-study of the subject for all serious gardeners... The magnificent colour photographs are better than anything else I have ever seen... Experts of former years would be astounded by the insight that this excellent book offers.' Country Life"

About Graham Rice

Graham Rice trained at Kew and spent eight years on the staff of Practical Gardening. In recent years he has contributed to all the major gardening magazines and written a number of books including Plants for Problem Places, Garden Flowers from Seed and The Gardener's Guide to Perennials. He lives in Oundle, Peterborough. Elizabeth Strangman has, over the past 20 years, successfully raised and marketed several new strains of hellebore, and has built up an international reputation for the choice plants she supplies from Washfield Nursery in Kent.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The Lure and Magic of Hellebores; 2. Ecology and Botany; 3. Cultivation; 4. Plant Associations; 5. Propagation; 6. The Hellebore Species; 7. Hybrids in the Wild and in Gardens; 8. Breeding Hellebores; 9. The Orientalis Hybrids; 10. Case Histories; 11. People and their Plants; 12. The National Collection; 13. Hellebores in America; 14. Hellebores in Australia; Where to see Hellebores; Where to buy Hellebores; Reading about Hellebores; Acknowledgments; Index

Additional information

GOR010907915
9780715321591
0715321595
The Gardener's Guide to Growing Hellebores by Graham Rice
Used - Like New
Paperback
David & Charles
2005-04-29
160
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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