plant treasures
from many different sources such as original diaries, travel records and also from previously unpublished material from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, the famous garden journalist Carolyn Fry compiled a bibliophile treasure whose charm a beautifully made album is like. The picture book for adults is lavishly illustrated with photographs and botanical drawings, and includes facsimiles of original documents such as the oldest known map of Kew Gardens. In my quite extensive collection of gardening books, it is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful books and if I had a voice in the awarding of the Garden Book Award, I had to think long, which I would give this new publication.
In a little over sixty pages, the book offers a comprehensive introduction to the issues of plant resources and plant collector and begins after a preface to the first expedition to the gold-guaranteed crop land of Punt and the spices imported from the Far East. More of each double-page chapters cover the introduction of the tulips in the European gardens and introduce plant collectors such as the Tradescant, Francis Masson, David Douglas and EH Wilson. In a historical summary of green gold may not be missing names such as Carl Linnaeus, Sir Joseph Banks and Joseph Hooker. It is not only about the past is reported. The current tasks of the Botanic Gardens and the Millennium Seed Bank, and the consequences of climate change are also explained and a chapter is about the negative side effects from the spread of invasive species.
along the flowing body of water in our immediate environment is spreading the Himalayan balsam (Impatiens glandulifera) Every year more. Although the problem of alien plants and the local paper here every now and then an item is worth, there are Hobby gardeners weeding around this same weeds in the creek adjacent to their land slope the soil and the plants probably provide even more regularly with water. As an apology may perhaps be added that it is also quite amusing to see how the mature seed capsules at the slightest touch to fly in all directions!
Carolyn Fry:
plant treasures
Callwey Verlag, 2010
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