Dear John: A couple of books worth mentioning re the Drakensberg area are: The Flora of the Natal Drakensberg by Donald Killick, (1990) Transvaal Lowveld & Escarpment, Wild Flower Guide #4 (1984) and A Botanist in Southern Africa by John Hutchinson (1946) This covers all types of plants. No doubt you have these. Cheers, John E. Bryan johngrimshaw@tiscali.co.uk wrote: > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php