English Plants for Your Garden

by Jill Duchess of Hamilton

• ISBN13: 9780711214354
• ISBN10: 0711214352
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln Ltd

Summary

Provides a complete checklist of English native plants and their descriptions.

Author Biography

Jill Duchess of Hamilton is a vice-president of Butterfly Conservation and a Fellow of the Linnean Society. She has won silver and silver-gilt medals for gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show Penny Hart, a former Fleet Street journalist, is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, a keen amateur painter and an enthusiastic gardener at her home in Surrey John Simmons, OBE, VMH was Curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, for nearly twenty-three years. Currently he curates the Arboretum at Castle Howard in Yorkshire Don Berwick, photographer, lives at Forncett St Peter, Norfolk. Since taking early retirement in 1989, he has been able to concentrate on his long-standing passion for wildlife and conservation. He has photographed all the 1700 species of the British flora and is one of the founders of the quarterly journal Flora, Facts and Fables Jacques le Moyne de Morgues was a Huguenot artist and a protege of Sir Walter Raleigh

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Preface	p. 8
Gardening with Native Plants	p. 10
Herbaceous Flowers	p. 30
Tress, Shrubs and Climbers	p. 119
A New Deal for Native Plants	p. 158
Directory of English Native Plants	p. 162
Suppliers of English Native Plants	p. 172
Index	p. 173
Acknowledgments	p. 176
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