RHS HORTI CURIOUS

A Gardener's Miscellany of Fascinating Facts and Remarkable Plants which will turn you into an expert with just one reading! If plants could talk they would tell amazing stories of survival, derring-do, drama, beauty, friends and enemies, and the stories here are as small as an orchid seed and as large as Greenland, as old as Adam and Eve and as young as tomorrow. It is the endlessly surprising and intriguing story about a green and ever-changing world. Much enhanced by superb botanical illustrations, we delve into the lush world of Horti Curious with hundreds of other entertaining and enlightening facts, from forgotten folklore to famous gardeners, incredible edibles to poisonous plants. Beginning with the absolute basics of the anatomy of a flower, the text is beautifully decorated with colour illustrations and pull quotes, brief histories of medicinal plants, names, the busy lives of leaves with their shapes and forms, poisonous plants, roses, lawns, growing an orchard, a few basics about tools, strategies for a low-carbon garden, plants under the deep blue sea, treasured parks, botanical gardens and inspirational people, wild foraging and alcoholic plants. Really brief, beautiful, informative. 224 large pages, 18 x 23.5cm, colour illus.