Diane wrote about the Botanical Society of South Africa's excellent guidebooks. Unfortunately the series doesn't cover the area most useful to temperate gardeners - the Drakensberg. For this I recommend Elsa Pooley's 'Mountain Flowers: A field guide to the Flora of the Drakensberg and Lesotho' (2003). It covers a wide range of geophytes and herbaceous monocots. John Grimshaw Dr John M. Grimshaw Garden Manager, Colesbourne Gardens Sycamore Cottage Colesbourne Nr Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9NP Website: http://www.colesbournegardens.org.uk/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane Whitehead" <voltaire@islandnet.com> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 11:47 PM Subject: [pbs] South African flower books > Most of the books I own which show pictures of South African flowers > restrict themselves to the Cape. Many seeds offered by seed > exchanges and Silverhill do not come from the Cape, so I have been > out of luck seeing pictures unless there are some online. > > I was at the bookstore of the University of California at Santa Cruz > Botanic Garden recently, and found a collection of South African Wild > Flower Guides written by John Manning and Peter Goldblatt and > published by the Botanical Society of South Africa.