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Illustrated Garden Glossary
Paperback
April 2025
9781800629691
More details
- Publisher
CABI - ISBN 9781800629691
- Language English
- Pages 128 pp.
- Size 8.25" x 11.5"
- Images color illus
$45.00
The Illustrated Garden Glossary is a comprehensive glossary of over 1000 terms related to gardening and horticulture, each supported by superb color illustrations to aid understanding.
The topics covered include plant classification, morphology and growth; plants from seeds; propagation; soil; compost; planting systems; pruning; pests and diseases; water and more. The glossary also explores terms relating to the history of gardens, from ancient Greece and Egypt, to gardens across Asia and the Middle East, and through to our modern-day urban farms.
The Illustrated Garden Glossary is a must-have reference for gardeners, plant scientists, horticulturalists, students, libraries, ecologists and urban farmers.
Enid Mayfield
Enid Mayfield is an Honorary Associate of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Victoria, Australia. She studied Botanical Illustration at Burnley Horticultural College before illustrating for the Flora of Victoria at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne Department of Plant Sciences. She has contributed to the Flora of Australia project and many other publications, including her own two-volume Flora of the Otway Plain and Ranges, for which she spent 12 years in the field collecting specimens. Enid is notable for her skill in researching complex scientific topics and then writing and illustrating them so that they are accessible to a wider audience.
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