Product Description

This practical guide to growing hardy geraniums offers advice on improving plants through cultivation techniques, provides instructions on where and how to plant hardy geraniums, and makes suggestions on how to use them for camouflage and in association with other plants. An A-Z section serves as a comprehensive reference and includes American and Australian species and exotics from all over the world, and propagation is examined in depth.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1383000 in Books
• Published on: 1994-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

Review
This is the best kind of plant book, well and knowledgeably written, with photographs that clearly show color, form, and---most importantly---combinations for garden building. -- Valerie Easton "Washington Park Arboretum Bulletin" (02/01/2000)

About the Author
Trevor Bath is widely recognised as a leading authority on hardy geraniums. He lectures for the Royal Horticultural Society, which describes him as 'an acknowledged expert on the use of plant associations for effect'. Trevor ran his own nursery and raised 'Lily Lovell', an improved version of Geranium phaeum. Joy Jones, organiser of the Hardy Geranium Group of the Hardy Plant Society for the past 20 years, modestly describes herself as an amateur gardener: her small garden hosts an impressive collection of hardy geraniums.

Customer Reviews

a winner
A good read from beginning to end. I am fond of geraniums, but had no idea of the scope of the genus. The book helped me straighten out some of my mislabled orphans. Only a couple of problems - I wish it had far more photos of the leaves and flowers to help in identification, and the encyclopedia has no zone information for those of us in the US.