South African flower books
johngrimshaw@tiscali.co.uk (Tue, 07 Jun 2005 22:11:34 PDT)
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.