Gardening with Rhododendrons: A Complete Guide.

Hardback quarto, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), colour text-photos (some full-page), light foxing top edge, minor foxing top edge reverse side jacket (minor edgewear). Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 175 pp. Murray Richards, a New Zealand horticulture academic, provides a highly illustrated guide to the exciting possibilities of gardening with these special plants: rhododendrons. This book covers the characteristics and distribution of the genus, including vireyas, and deciduous and evergreen azaleas. There is advice on conditions needed for successful cultivation, landscaping and container growing, pests and diseases, propagation and hybridising. An annotated index of species and cultivars provides brief information on over 250 popular rhododendrons. There are 200 colour photos. (Originally published by Godwit Books, New Zealand, 1994, ISBN 0908877552. This copy is the Australian edition, Florilegium, 1994, ISBN 0646202065.).