The origins of garden plants
The flowers and shrubs which flourish in our gardens today come from all over the world. This book chronicles the discovery and origins of over 900 of these. Some are common, some are rare, some are extinct ancestors of the hybrids we know. Their origins are linked with all the great movements in history and start with the survivors of the Great Ice Age. The discoveries and rediscoveries of plants we owe most to the spirited adventurers distinguished by a passion for plants had an insatiable curiosity which frequently led them into danger
Print Book, English, 1982
Constable, London, 1982