EB Anderson

E B Anderson, 1885-1971.

To this man, we owe much of the present popularity of dwarf species bulbs. Rather than gush away, I will simply list the books he wrote and let them speak for him:

• Dwarf Bulbs for the Rock Garden, Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, 1959
• Rock Gardens, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1959 (a Penguin Handbook)
• Camellias, Blandford Press, London, 1961
• Rock Gardens, Geoffrey Bles, London, 1963
• Hardy Bulbs 1, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1964 (a Penguin Handbook)
• Gardening on Chalk and Limestone, W. H. and L. Collingridge, 1965
• The Small Rock Garden, Pan Books, London, 1965
• Seven Gardens, or Sixty Years of Gardening, Michael Joseph, London, 1973 (posthumous)