South African flower books

John Bryan johnbryan@worldnet.att.net
Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:28:58 PDT
Dear John:
A couple of books worth mentioning re the Drakensberg area are: The
Flora of the Natal Drakensberg by Donald Killick, (1990) Transvaal
Lowveld & Escarpment, Wild Flower Guide #4 (1984) and A Botanist in
Southern Africa by John Hutchinson (1946) This covers all types of
plants. No doubt you have these. Cheers, John E. Bryan

johngrimshaw@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
> 
> Diane wrote about the Botanical Society of South Africa's excellent
> guidebooks. Unfortunately the series doesn't cover the area most useful to
> temperate gardeners - the Drakensberg. For this I recommend Elsa Pooley's
> 'Mountain Flowers: A field guide to the Flora of the Drakensberg and
> Lesotho' (2003). It covers a wide range of geophytes and herbaceous
> monocots.
> 
> John Grimshaw
> 
> Dr John M. Grimshaw
> Garden Manager, Colesbourne Gardens
> 
> Sycamore Cottage
> Colesbourne
> Nr Cheltenham
> Gloucestershire GL53 9NP
> 
> Website: http://www.colesbournegardens.org.uk/
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Diane Whitehead" <voltaire@islandnet.com>
> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 11:47 PM
> Subject: [pbs] South African flower books
> 
> > Most of the books I own which show pictures of South African flowers
> > restrict themselves to the Cape.  Many seeds offered by seed
> > exchanges and Silverhill do not come from the Cape, so I have been
> > out of luck seeing pictures unless there are some online.
> >
> > I was at the bookstore of the University of California at Santa Cruz
> > Botanic Garden recently, and found a collection of South African Wild
> > Flower Guides written by John Manning and Peter Goldblatt and
> > published by the Botanical Society of South Africa.
> 
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