Rock Garden Plants : A Color Encyclopedia
Editorial Reviews
Mary Davies, Irish Garden, March 2000
A book for browsing as well as for the reference shelf.
Review
Pacific Horticulture : A glorious picture book illustrating over 1300 plants that demonstrate the diversity and the appeal of rock garden plants.
Marty Figley Michigan Observer and Eccentric : The lovely book, which includes 14,000 choice plants, will open a new world to many gardeners.
National Gardener : A truly inspiring book.
Ethel Fried Garden Notebook : Another excellent book from Timber Press.
Paula Refi Perennial Notes : This book provides not just guidance, but inspiration.For the growing number of trough aficionados who delight in creating miniature landscapes, this book is indispensable.
Wisley Bookshop : A visual feast of nearly 1400 choice plants with an astonishing variety and diversity.
Mary Davies Irish Garden : A book for browsing as well as for the reference shelf.
Patricia A. Taylor Trenton Times : Lust over Baldassare Mineo's Rock Garden Plants slowly, because there are nearly 1400 fascinating, litle known plants described and illustrated in this book. It is impossible to appreciate them all in just a few readings.
John E. Bryan Gardening Newsletter : For all interested in small but beautiful plants, this book will prove invaluable. The text abounds with snippets of interest.
Fred Winterowd Gardener for the Prairies : What a delight to the eye, with its hundreds of maginificent color photographs! . . . Yes, it is a 'comprehensive visual fest,' as stated on the book's jacket.
Sharon Lovejoy Los Angeles Times : Rock Garden Plants: A Color Encyclopedia has got to be the definitive work for the West Coast on this arcane topic.
Panayoti Kelaidis Rock Garden Quarterly : This is an instant classic. It represents a flowering, as it were, of two enormous talents in our art: Baldassare Mineo, owner of Siskiyou Rare Plant Nursery, and Fritz Kummert, an astonishing horticulturist from central Europe.
Don Humphrey American Gardener : The library of rock gardening books is sparse, so it is very encouraging to have a quality volume such as Rock Garden Plants to add to the shelf.
Judy Glattstein Home Monthly : For the experienced aficionado this will be an attractive book, with illustrations of plants seen only in mountain dreams.
American Reference Books Annual : This book will be well received in many public libararies . . . It is well written and illustrated and will be a welcome addition.
Virginia McClain Miller Garden Showcase : Beginner or expert, you'll find this book a companion to prize and consult for years to come.
Christopher Grey-Wilson Garden (Peterborough) : This is a welcome addition to the bookshelf, especially for the numerous colour photographs of fine garden and alpine plants, which should help entice more gardeners into trying them.
Joan Carlin Oregonian : The book is a thorough resource, a reference for experienced rock gardeners and a great way for novices to start.
Dale Langford Rocky Mountain News : Beginning or fully-matured rock gardeners can benefit here. More than 1,300 plants are mentioned along with 1,350 color photos.
John Van de Water Newark Star-Ledger : The information is encyclopedic, and the illustrations superb.
Curtis's Botanical Magazine : Photographs of nearly 1400 species and cultivars. It doesn't dwell on the theory and practice of rock gardening but delves straight into the A-Z of plants.
Rock Garden Quarterly : An excellent description of a classic locality for alpine plants.
Rock Garden Plants : A Color Encyclopedia
Rock Garden Plants: A Color Encyclopedia: A Color Encyclopedia,Baldassare Mineo,Timber Press,0881924326,Encyclopedias,Garden Design,Gardening,Gardening / Horticulture,Gardening/Plants,General,Ornamental Plants,Pictorial works,Plants - General,Rock gardens,Rock plants,Gardening: plants,Horticulture,Reference works,Specialized gardening methods
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