Cyclamen: A Guide for Gardeners, Horticulturists and Botanists - Hardcover

Grey-Wilson, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0881923869 ISBN 13: 9780881923865

Publisher: Timber Pr, 1997

Synopsis

A study of the 20 species of this increasingly popular flower, illustrated with some 140 color photos of cyclamen in the wild and in cultivation. Contains chapters on cultivation, pests and diseases, hybrids, and conservation, as well as the history and development of important florists' cyclamen. Appendices offer botanical keys and lists of nurseries selling cyclamen in the UK, awards, societies, and national collections. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

Book Description:

This is not only an authoritative botanical treatment, but also a practical gardener's handbook. Fully illustrated with color photographs, it includes extensive treatments of cyclamen cultivars & hybrids, with detailed notes on cultivation, propagation, & pests & diseases.

About the Author:

Christopher Grey-Wilson has been the Editor of the Alpine Garden Society since 1990, and is also a freelance horticultural writer and photographer. For many years he was a Principal Scientific Officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, working as a Research Botanist, and as Editor of Curtis' Botanical Magazine. He has been on a number of major botanical expeditions in pursuit of the mountain floras of Europe and Asia, particularly those of the Himalaya and southwest China. He is the author of several books regarded as standard works, including The Genus Cyclamen, The Illustrated Flora of Britain and Northern Europe, How to Identify Wild Flowers, The Alpine Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe, A Manual of Alpine and Rock Garden Plants, and The Alpine Garden. Recently published by B.T. Batsford is his comprehensive work Clematis the Genus. He serves on a number of committees of the Royal Horticultural Society, who recently awarded him a Gold Veitch Memorial Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Timber Pr
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0881923869
• ISBN 13: 9780881923865
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192