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The Gardener's Atlas: The Origins, Discovery, and Cultivation of the World's most Popular Garden Plants
The Gardener's Atlas The Origins Discovery and Cultivation of the World's most Popular Garden Plants Author:Dr. John Grimshaw Over 4,000 years of tradition, science, and art are at the disposal of today's gardeners. The plants in your garden may be native stock, exotics with origins on the other side of the world, or cultivars that are the product of centuries of careful attention by gardeners who have selected better clones from wild populations, or who have laboriou... more »sly bred them to conform to their ideal of perfection. This book tells the story of these plants and of gardens and gardeners from the earliest records to the present day. The labors of plant hunters and the efforts of plant breeders have made available plants suited to every situation, and even a small plot can grow some plant with a fascinating history to tell.« less