Hydrangeas: A Gardener's Guide

Lawson-Hall, Toni; Rothera, Brian

ISBN 10: 0881926698 / ISBN 13: 9780881926699

Published by Timber Press, Incorporated, Portland, Oregon, 2005

About this Item

176 Pages Indexed. Previous owner's name label on the front endpaper with date Apr 2006. Beautifully illustrated with over 130 color photographs, this new, revised edition of the classic text on hydrangeas shows the enormous possibilities offered by the plants, describing 20 new cultivars not in the original edition. The first section provides information on natural history, cultivation, and propagation; the second section describes 100 cultivars, including salient characteristics and even leaf and sepal outlines. The information is highly readable, yet full enough to be used as a guide to identification. It's easy to see why the book is a classic, and no hydrangea enthusiast will want to be without this new, expanded edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hydrangeas: A Gardener's Guide
• Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated, Portland, Oregon
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0881926698
• ISBN 13: 9780881926699
• Binding: Hard Back
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Beautifully illustrated with over 130 color photographs, this new, revised edition of the classic text on hydrangeas shows the enormous possibilities offered by the plants, describing 20 new cultivars not in the original edition. The first section provides information on natural history, cultivation, and propagation; the second section describes 100 cultivars, including salient characteristics and even leaf and sepal outlines. The information is highly readable, yet full enough to be used as a guide to identification. It's easy to see why the book is a classic, and no hydrangea enthusiast will want to be without this new, expanded edition.

About the Author

Toni Lawson-Hall is a hydrangea aficionado who, with Brian Rothera, built up the National Hydrangea Collection in England. Together they wrote the first edition of Hydrangeas, and Toni has fully revised and extended the work in this new edition. It is the result of her continued personal experience as a National Collection curator and her extensive gardening contacts and worldwide travels.