Alpines from Mountain to Garden.

Richard 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 300 fine photographs and 31 historic paintings from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. The author was a manager in the Hardy Display Section at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. An exceptionally good publication. A large book.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, 2010.

ISBN 9781842461723

Hardback with printed boards. 244 pages.

SECONDHAND. Very fine condition.