This is the fifth and final volume of the "Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia". The series gives gardeners, horticulturists, landscape designers, park managers, students and botanists the means to identify garden plants, and provides detailed information on their botany and cultivation. Like the previous four volumes, Volume 5 is written to be accessible to non-specialists with the key aim of facilitating the identification of native and exotic garden plants, with very minimal use of technical terms. The book's ...
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This is the fifth and final volume of the "Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia". The series gives gardeners, horticulturists, landscape designers, park managers, students and botanists the means to identify garden plants, and provides detailed information on their botany and cultivation. Like the previous four volumes, Volume 5 is written to be accessible to non-specialists with the key aim of facilitating the identification of native and exotic garden plants, with very minimal use of technical terms. The book's features include: illustrations of important and distinguishing characteristics of different species; colour plates of representatives types; easy-to-use identification keys; detailed descriptions of families of plants, as well as species and cultivars, including notes on recognition; a comprehensive inventory of readily available garden plants; authoritative listing of botanical and horticultural names, including cultivars; extensive notes on propagation, uses, ecology, cultivation, origins, distribution and conservation; historical and background information, including information on where to see prominent specimens and outstanding collections and details of plant and horticultural and cultivar registration associations. Volume 5 focuses on the monocotyledons, including such popular garden groups as irises, Illies, grasses, orchids, palms, bromelaids and many more. The five-volume set of "Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia" represents the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to the cultivated plants of New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, the ACT and southeastern Queensland.
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Add this copy of Horticultural Flora of South-Eastern Australia. Volume to cart. $126.89, like new condition, Sold by Lawrence Jones rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Nobby Beach, QLD, AUSTRALIA, published 2005 by University of New South Wales Press (UNSWP).
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Su Pearson. Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo. HEAVY. xxxviii, 638pp, 16pp of colour photo plates, b/w text-ills throughout, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index. Cloth boards in dustjacket. NEW. This is the fifth volume in the series Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. The book covers South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales and southern Queensland. The series is also a useful guide to temperate plants in other parts of Australia and New Zealand. The series gives to gardeners, students, nursery staff and others in the horticultural industry, the means to identify garden plants and provides detailed information on their botany and cultivation.
