Alpines from Mountain to Garden. engravings

engravings

tables and black and white photographs

This book has world wide scope and provides comprehensive coverage of people and places

Very fine photographs by the author of her garden in Dublin

This natural history collection is known primarily for its numerous sets of fossil dinosaur footprints

Alpines from Mountain to Garden. engravingsRichard Wilford. Describes the history of alpine plants in gardens and how plant hunters found and catalogued them from all the alpine reasons worldwide. Also details how nurserymen and horticulturalists recreated the conditions necessary for them to do well in gardens, together with some specific cultivation advice for certain species. The story is organised by eight geographical regions, including one on Australasian plants. Illustrated with over