Conservatory & Indoor Plants Vol 2
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Conservatory & Indoor Plants Vol 2 by Roger Phillips
Volume two includes begonias, lilies, jasmines, orchids, hoyas, palms, ferns, oleanders and other select groups of conservatory and indoor plants. All these plants grow outdoors in Mediterranean or subtropical climates and most of them need shelter of a cool greenhouse or conservatory in areas that have frost in winter, a few need heat. All of them can be grown outdoors in the UK in summer. The book includes introductory chapters on garden and greenhouse cultivation, types of conservatory, and on the habitat of species grown in the wild. It features horticultural information on 1200 plants.
Roger Phillips was an award-winning photographer with a reputation spanning nearly fifty years. In 1975, he began his life's major work of cateloguing the world's garden plants, setting out to develop an encyclopedic collection of books to show the difference between plants as diverse as mosses, roses and annuals. Roger consistently pioneered the use of colour photography for the reliable identification of natural history subjects, and wrote more than forty works dedicated to this purpose, including Vegetables; Mushrooms; Wild Food; Trees; and the seminal Wild Flowers: of Britain and Ireland, which sold almost half a million copies in its first year alone, and has gone on to become the bible for anthophiles across the Isles. Roger wrote and presented two major six-part TV series on gardening for the BBC and Channel 4. Famed for his ebullient personality and trademark red glasses, he was a well-recognised figure in the world of gardening, and he received an MBE for his work on London’s garden squares. He died in November 2021. Martyn Rix is a leading botanist, plant collector, gardener, independent botanical advisor and writer. He and award-winning photographer Roger Phillips have collaborated on over twenty-five books such as Vegetables.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780333677384 |
| ISBN 10 | 0333677382 |
| Title | Conservatory & Indoor Plants Vol 2 |
| Author | Roger Phillips |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 1997-11-07 |
| Number of pages | 319 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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