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This superb book celebrates over 60 of the world's finest botanic gardens, showcasing the horticultural treasures of each continent. ... Read more

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William Hertrich's personal history of the Huntington Botanical Gardens has been a perennial favorite since its first publication in 1949, and this reprinted edition will captivate a whole new audience of readers. Hertrich was hired as Henry Huntington's landscape gardener in 1905; over the next two decades, the two men designed many of teh gardens and plant collections seen at the Huntington today. Upon his retirement as superintendent in 1948, Hertrich set out to write an in-depth history of the early years of teh estate in a highly personal account filled with memories, anecdotes, and first-hand historical detail. The book includes more than 150 black-and-white photos beginnign with the early 1900s, many of them taken by Hertrich himself. This is a "must-read" book for anyone with an interest in the history of the Huntington. ... Read more

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An essential reference, this gorgeous book documents the magnificent botanical prints produced by notable artists of the 17th through the turn of the 20th centuries. Celebrated artists include Basil Besler, Maria Sybilla Merian, Mark Catesby, Georg Ehret, George Brookshaw, Robert John Thornton, Pierre Joseph Redout, and many others. Illustrated with over 300 full-color images of original and valuable botanical prints, this book fills a void in the literature, as few good botanical references remain in print. The text recounts the fascinating lives and passions of the artists and their patrons, the technical advances in printmaking, and the history and cultural influences that shaped the depiction of flowers, plants, and trees. Also discussed are many variables affecting the values of original antique botanical prints including condition, rarity, historical significance, and aesthetic appeal. A range of prices is included to guide you in your collecting and a section on framing, displaying, and proper storage makes this an indispensable reference. A fascinating book for collectors of botanical prints, gardeners, and those interested in the history of flowers. ... Read more

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The Art of The Garden
Excellent collection of antique botanical prints. Well worth the price. Beautiful... A feast for the eyes!

A Gem
This was a gift I gave and was very well-received.It is an exceptionally beautiful book withmany floral prints worthy of framing. I am just glad they are still printing books of this quality.

A beautiful book about an undervalued area of collecting.
The Art of the Garden... introduces the beginning enthusiast to the wonderful world of antique flower prints and is an essential addition to the library of the established collector of botanical art.

The gorgeously illustrated book documents the magnificent flower prints produced by notable artists of the 17th through the turn of the 20th centuries. These celebrated artists include Basil Besler, Maria Sybilla Merian, Mark Catesby, Georg Ehert, George Brookshaw, Robert John Thornton, Pierre Joseph Redoutè, and many others.

Illustrated with over 300 full-color images of original and valuable botanical prints, this book fills a void in the literature, as few good botanical references remain in print.

The text recounts the fascinating lives and passions of the artists and their patrons, the technical advances in printmaking, and the discoveries and cultural influences that shaped the depiction of flowers, plants, and trees. Also discussed are many variables affecting the values of original antique botanical prints including condition, rarity, historical significance, and aesthetic appeal. A range of prices is included to guide you in your collecting and a section on framing, displaying, and proper storage makes this an indispensable reference. A fascinating book for collectors of botanical prints, gardeners, and those interested in the history of flowers.

Beautiful Prints
Some of the most beautiful AND important antique flower prints are reproduced in full color in this book.I was amazed at the amount of knowledge and history detailed so elegantly.The authors include even more artist information on their site.Fineantiqueprintsdotcom has striking images and examples.This book is an excellent reference.

Fabulous
This book is well written.Straight forward, informative and intersting.The reproductions of the botanical prints are stunning.The book is super reference for both the novice as well as the more experienced collector.A joy to read. ... Read more

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The Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, are a remarkable showcase of exotic plants from all over the world, and this lavishly illustrated volume presents a comprehensive look at these diverse plantings, from towering landmark trees to minuscule desert succulents. The book's 270 color illustrations feature highlights from the Huntington's sixteen specialized gardens, which comprise twenty thousand kinds of plants, with as many as eighteen hundred rose species and cultivars, twelve hundred camellia cultivars, and five thousand cacti and succulents. This new edition of The Botanical Gardens at the Huntington includes a section about the Chinese Garden, which opened in February 2008. ... Read more

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Great souvenir and resource for the gardens
I visited the Huntington Museum in Pasadena last July not expecting all that much but was most impressed. I particularly enjoyed the scope and variety of their botanical gardens and so bought this book to remind myself of what I'd seen and also to learn more about the background of the gardens and how they came to be.

I was disappointed in no respect. The book provides historical photographs as well as an account of how Henry Huntington both earned his wealth and used it to establish this marvelous place. It goes on to provide sumptuous photographs of all parts of the gardens, covering both what's there and how they were established. Detail on the desert section and the Japanese section (my two favorites) were particularly appreciated. My only quibble is that a chapter on the notable trees is saved for the end, rather than covering the trees along with the location they belong to. This seems rather odd but is a minor note.

All in all, this book is a splendid souvenir and resource for the gardens of Huntington.

This is not a review but a correction.
As author you have listed the photographer instead of the writer.The author should be Walter Houk, as you will discover on the title page. ... Read more

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"The hundreds of orchid genera and thousands of species can seem unbelievably complex, but they are beautiful, mysterious, and alluring. Therefore we want reliable ways in which to refer to them--ways that will be understood by those who hear us or read our written communications about these plants. The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Illustrated Dictionary of Orchid Genera will become a convenient reference for those many people who are fascinated by orchids. By referring to this guide, one can find a secure mooring for any species of orchid, one that makes it possible to understand its relatives and its place in the galaxy of orchid variation."--from the Foreword by Peter H. Raven

The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Illustrated Dictionary of Orchid Genera is the most comprehensive and extensively illustrated account of orchid genera to date. Its concise entries provide details of nomenclature, classification, original publication, etymology, and geographic range, along with a brief description and color images of representative flowers.

The dictionary describes not only all of the 850 orchid genera that are recognized today but also those genera known only from fossil records, published before Linnaeus, validly published (but not accepted), and invalidly published according to the standards of the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, as well as those that have variant names or spellings. In addition to the alphabetic entries, this dictionary includes an introduction to orchid biology, a glossary, a list of taxonomists credited with publishing new orchid genera, key references and bibliographical abbreviation list, and the governing nomenclature rules. The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Illustrated Dictionary of Orchid Genera also features a Foreword by Peter H. Raven and an Introduction on the biology of orchids by David Benzing that describes the August 2007 discovery of the world's oldest unequivically orchidaceous fossil.

The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota, Florida, are extensive botanical gardens dedicated to research and collections of epiphytes, especially orchids and bromeliads, and their canopy ecosystems. The Gardens maintain the most diverse collection of bromeliads in the world and feature over 20,000 plants from some 6,000 species in 1,200 genera from 214 plant families, including 6,000 live orchids. This monumental work is yet another manifestation of the collection-an extension of the Gardens into print. ... Read more

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Excellent reference book
My wife asked me to order this book for her birthday.
I accidentally ordered two copies (maybe I double clicked?) of it.

My wife loves the book, and has shown it to her orchid species study group.

We donated the second copy to the curator of orchids at the San Diego Zoo.
That made me a real hero.It was already on her wish list.

The Marie Selby Gardens Illustrated Dictionary of Orchid Genera
Excellent book. Long needed by the orchid community. It can be understood by and useful to beginners and experienced orchidists alike.A must for any orchid library. I thank the team from Marie Selby for this well written concise reference book. ... Read more

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A beautiful book of color photographs of the OlbrichBotanical Gardens, of Madison, Wisconsin, published in celebration ofthe 50th anniversary of the gardens.Includes a history of thegardens, including the contributions of its founders, MichaelB. Olbrich and John M. Olin.Subjects of the photographs includegarden design, ornamental plants, herbs, vegetables, rock gardens,water gardens, tropical plants, trees and shrubs. ... Read more

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To propose a botanical garden in one of the world's most rapidly expanding cities is of course a gesture that invokes ecological issues regarding sustainability and the conservation of plant life. The German landscape architect's planning group Valentien intend the garden that they are constructing, for Chenshan (Hill Chen) in the Song Jiang District of Shanghai (just outside the city center), to be such a gesture, as well as a model of plant conservation and scientific research development-and one of Shanghai's most ambitious landmarks. The project is enormous, and informed throughout by the architects' ecological imperatives: Energy-saving technologies are to be utilized in the garden's buildings (greenhouses, laboratories and education center) and renewable materials will be deployed throughout. The completion of Chenshan Botanic Garden is planned to coincide with the opening of EXPO 2010 in Shanghai; in the meantime, this book tracks the design process of this unique and bold landscaping project, extrapolating its conceptual infrastructure against an exploration of local conditions and expectations in Shanghai and its surrounding environs. ... Read more

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The best horticultural encyclopedia available...
I have been through every horticultural encylopedia available at university libraries and public libraries, and this one is by far the most complete, accurate, practical and interesting.

Photographs of many, manyplants, full details of expert growing methods, history of origin ofspecies, varieties and cultivars; origin of theLatin botanical names andcommon names, common names in many languages, great general information onhorticulture useful to any gardener, and tremendous detail on growingcommon food crops, foliage plants and more.

Volumes are availableseparately.

A fabulous value and a must-have for botanical gardens, oranyone serious about gardening who wants to do it right. ... Read more

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Bring it Back
Perennial Gardening (American Garden Guides) isone of my favorite garden books. It is concise, accurate, extremely well illustrated,and does not confuse the reader with excessive information. I am a horticulturalist andthe Head Grower for a 60 acre wholesale container nursery. I have beenresponsible for growing perennials for over 20years. Often I am ask tospeak to retail customers or the general public. This is my most highlyrecommended book for people first starting to develop a perennial Garden.

Well organized and easy identification of plants.
I am on my 6th week with this book from my local library. I can't get enough. I have read many books and magazines and this book is well organized and has great clearity and easy access for plant descriptions. Ihighly recommend getting a copy from your library and checking it out foryourself. I hope these reviews will help bring this book back around forthe gardeners who want a good book to add to their collection.

Very informative and easy to use.
I have this book and keep it handly for reference year round.It gets a lot of use in the spring & fall, when I need a quick brush up on what to move or divide and when.I have recommended this book to many of my gardening friends.I hope at least some of them got a copy.I know many more who want a copy.

Get this book back in print...
Actually, I have't read this book because book stores don't carry it.It is out of stock and nobody can get it.I know it's a good book, though, because it is part of The American Gardening Guide series.I have the Annual Gardening book in this series and it is very well organized and informative. I would dearly love a copy of Perennial Gardening. I hope a book distributor will read this, and due to the fact that it just so happens they still have a copy in stock, they contact me at my email address below. ... Read more

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A master gardener relates the history of rock gardening in Europe and America; discusses the classic definitions of rock gardens, alpine gardens, and rockeries; and provides practical and aesthetic information on arranging and moving boulders, rocks and earth. 150 full-color photos. ... Read more

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Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix are pioneers in the use of photography in plant illustration. The Botanical Garden I and II, are exciting and thoroughly modern renditions of illustrated botany books. Ten years in the making, this set combines the finest in photography with up-to-date, expert commentary to bridge the gap between gardener-friendly books and scientific texts. In the tradition of the great botanical illustrations, each featured plant has been carefully photographed -- as a whole and in its parts -- against a white background to reveal the plant's physical characteristics in exacting detail.

Plants from more than 1,200 distinct groups are described -- from oaks to violets and water lilies to grasses -- and are presented in evolutionary order, from the most primitive to the most advanced. Each plant listing includes:
- Name: genus, species and common names, date of discovery, and range.
- Description: detailed and concise in the scientific style.
- Key Recognition Features.
- Ecology and Geography.
- Comment: cultivation needs plus notes about unusual hybrids or developments in the genus.

As a pair, the two volumes are an all-inclusive source of information and photographs of more than 2,000 genera of temperate plants. Thorough introductory text encompasses numerous themes in botany, from the history of plant development to current DNA studies that are revolutionizing plant classification. Each volume includes a detailed index and bibliography.The Botanical Garden I and II are exciting additions to a gardening bookshelf. They are visually rich and highly accurate references that will remain interesting, useful and current for many years. Offering a discerning insight into the relationship between garden plants and their natural environments and accuracy that is unequalled outside scientific circles, this duo are truly the modern heirs to a long history of botanical references. There are simply no other works of this kind available today.

About Volume I, Trees and Shrubs

Featuring 510 genera of temperate woody garden plants with full details of how they are related, their origins and uses, Volume I covers trees, shrubs and climbers. From plants dating to prehistory -- tree ferns, gingkoes and some conifers - to those more recently evolved, this volume includes early- flowering plants (magnolia and its family), catkin-bearing trees, fruit and nut trees, maples, the cordyline, palm and bamboo species, and many more advanced trees and shrubs. ... Read more

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Well above average
This is a pretty nice book. Of course it is always a relief to find a work without the ubiquitous hardiness maps and gardening advice. This handsomely printed volume in full color is a pleasure to browse through. Finally an arrangement of trees and shrubs that makes some sense, instead of the haphazard (read alphabetical) arrangement encountered so often. Although the authors wisely avoid the trap of involving themselves in the morass of common names they definitely miss a trick by not giving the etymology of the botanical names. It is quite odd to see a laurel-like picture of Daphniphyllum and not be able to read that "daphne" is the Greek word for "laurel" with "phyllus" the Greek for "leaf"

Of course trees and shrubs is too big a topic to fit within the covers of a single volume and it is not surprising to notice that the authors occasionally drop the ball and make quite silly errors. Obviously it would be too much to expect anybody to be fully informed on the whole range of plants covered.

Perhaps the most noticeable thing missing from this work is light. Quite a lot of the trees and shrubs included here have dark green foliage and in the pictures not much detail can be made out. A bit more light in photography would have made quite a difference.

All in all this is a book that will look good on the bookshelf and will be appreciated by anybody who is fond of trees and shrubs and is not afraid to look beyond the confines of the own garden. ... Read more

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For the first time, the complete story of the most beautiful place in St. Louis is told in Missouri Botanical Garden: Green for 150 Years. This oversized, hard cover book is illustrated with over 400 photos, both archival and contemporary, and a foreword by Dr. Peter H. Raven, the Garden s president and Time magazine`s Hero for the Planet.

Founded in 1859, the Missouri Botanical Garden is the oldest botanical garden in the United States and one of the only gardens to achieve National Historic Landmark status. One hundred and fifty years later, the Garden is a beloved and beautiful oasis for beleaguered urbanites, with magnificent gardens, historic conservatories, and rare collections of plants. The Garden is also a world leader in botanical science and conservation, with operations in thirty eight countries around the globe. ... Read more

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Restrained and passionate
Gene Bauer's quietly luscious, simple botanical silk-screen prints are exactly half of what is pleasurable about this book. And oh, the design and production is very nice, big white coated pages with the prints reproduced at maximum size, but as nice a job as ESRI Press did with her work, it's not the weight and beauty of the object that satisfies here.

No, it's Gene Bauer's writing, her uncompromising voice, her first-person story of exploration, observation, creation, and activism that makes this book impossible to put down. Her well-thought-out observations convey the same rigor and poetry as the strong, precise shapes in her art.

"Visiting the campus before, in November, I had been atracted to a vine covering a ten-foot-high chain-link fence adjacent to the garden. The fence itself, about two-hundred feet long, was protecting a rather unsightly bit of electrical apparatus, and as if rewarding it for that, the vine's lush green foliage blanketed the fence entirely. Sensational salmon-coral flowers from the vine adorned this embrace. The lustrous vine, still covered with flowers when I visited again four months later, was Passiflora jamesonii."

Love Affair with Plants
Gene Bauer took chairmanships with California Garden Clubs, Inc. and turned them into pieces of art, exquisite in every detail.The essays about each plant she chose are written with passion as well as expertise.Read it from front to cover - it's fascinating!!!

Botanical Serigraphs:The Gene Bauer Collection
This book is a rare gem, truly a piece of art.Having been to the Daffodil Garden in Running Springs - several times - and having enjoyed the beautiful display of blooming bulbs, one time with my sister, who was visiting from Germany - it was always a delightful and rare experience.
Later, I was heartbroken, when I heard about the Fire and the Bauer's loss of their home.
How providential, that Jack Dangermond of the renowned Redlands company ESRI, along with others from his firm, took an interest in Gene Bauer's work, the Serigraphs, a labor of love, spanning over many years.The Serigraphs express Gene Bauer's love for California's native flora and I am so grateful that they were preserved in this fashion, this beautiful book, for many to enjoy.I treasure my copy.

A strikingly minimalist yet wonderful coffee-table artbook
Botanical Serigraphs: The Gene Bauer Collection gathers the hand-printed serigraphs (prints made by the silkscreen process) of various plants and flowers, all beautifully reproduced in full color, as created by master artist Gene Bauer. The artworks are delicately beautiful in their simplicity, and pages facing many of the prints are filled with thoughtful ruminations about the plant being portrayed. A strikingly minimalist yet wonderful coffee-table artbook, highly recommended for personal collections or for gift-giving. ... Read more

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All life depends on plants, but we often take them for granted in our everyday lives. It is easy to ignore the fact that we are facing a crisis: scientists estimate that one third of all flowering plant species are threatened with extinction. This lavishly illustrated volume considers the essential conservation role of botanic gardens, telling the story of how a global network is working to save our botanical heritage. Chapters feature gardens from countries around the world, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Germany, Turkey, Uganda, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, and China.

Comments and photographs from the gardeners involved give the book a personal touch, revealing the human side of the important work that goes on behind the scenes of these spectacular gardens. Author Sara Oldfield shows us how botanic gardens are truly "modern-day arks," safeguarding species and saving resources on which we may someday depend. ... Read more

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A comprehensive overview of the ferns of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Species discussed: Psilopsida; Sphenopsida; Lycopsida and Pteropsida.Contains a checklist of the Virgin Islands ferns and a checklist of the Pteridophytes of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands ... Read more

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A horticulture and decorating expert combines her skills to offer fresh ideas for decorating and entertaining with a floral flair. 35,000 first printing. Tour. First serial, House Beautiful, Elle Decor, Victoria, HG, & Country Living Gardener. ... Read more

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A Classic!
Cynthia Gibson is a very talented lady.Her obvious taste and style is featured through the lovely photographs.Not only is the information tried and true, it is accessible.This book is a winner! ... Read more