The Reader's Digest Gardeners' Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers by Reader's Digest

This comprehensive, up-to-date and lavish guide to garden plants includes over 8000 plants available today - 4000 of them featured in rich, full-colour photographs arranged in a novel and practical way. With text contributed by a team of specialist plant experts, this ambitious book is designed to be a standard and enduring work of reference, to be enjoyed by all garden-lovers in Australia and New Zealand. The book includes: a simple guide to garden planning; a plant catalogue - organised by plant type, size, season of interest and colour, each plant portrait is accompanied by descriptive text, symbols outlining cultivation requirements and, for trees, shrubs and palms, a scale-drawing to show size and shape when mature; a complete A-Z guide to more than 8000 plants, which functions as an index to the encyclopedia and describes every genus included in the book, providing information about thousands of other recommended plants. The text also includes a complete common-name index for easy cross-reference to botanical names, an extensive list of the Australian and New Zealand native plants featured in the book and a glossary giving straightforward definitions of technical terms.