Pulmonarias and the borage family

A useful book for gardeners, horticulturalists and botanists, detailing the biology, ecology and cultivation of over 200 species and hundreds of varieties of the family Boraginaceae. The well known genus Pulmonaria is treated in some detail in over 50 pages. Other genera that are common or rare in cultivation, have a page or so of description for each entry including notes on uses, cultivation and propagation. There are appendices on: hardiness, common names, useful addresses, listings of genera and cultivars not decribed and a bibliography.

hard back, 240 pp. Colour photographs illustrate many of the entries.
0713487321