E B Anderson

E B Anderson, 1885-1971.

To this man, we owe much of the present popularity of dwarf species bulbs. Rather than gush away, I will simply list the books he wrote and let them speak for him:

• "Dwarf Bulbs for the Rock Garden", Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, 1959
• "Rock Gardens", Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1959 (a Penguin Handbook)
• "Camellias", Blandford Press, London, 1961
• "Rock Gardens", Geoffrey Bles, London, 1963
• "Hardy Bulbs 1", Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1964 (a Penguin Handbook)
• "Gardening on Chalk and Limestone", W. H. and L. Collingridge, 1965
• "The Small Rock Garden", Pan Books, London, 1965
• "Seven Gardens, or Sixty Years of Gardening", Michael Joseph, London, 1973 (posthumous)