Roger Phillips

Martyn Rix

This volume deals with trees, shrubs and climbers and covers over 450 genera of woody plants. It begins with the genera whose ancestors can be traced back to the Jurassic period and ranges in botanical order through the earliest flowering plants to the catkin-bearing trees and familiar fruit trees, maples and other advanced flower plants.

The Botanical Garden

As part of the Pan Garden Plant series, this first volume on perennials covers plants that flower in the spring and early summer. This book includes photographs of over 1250 perennials from around the world as well as text describing the plants origins, characteristics and frost hardiness.

Early perennials

Perennials

Roger Phillips ; Martyn Rix. Historical Research by Nicky Foy [u.a.].

˜Theœ Quest for the Rose

Quest for the Rose

The Most Highly Illustrated Historical Guide to Roses

The Quest for the Rose

A history of the rose is accompanied by a guide to more than one thousand varieties

Comprehensive illustrated directory of 1,000 annuals and biennials, including planting tips, design ideas and sources. Illustrated throughout in color.

The Definitive Reference with Over 1,000 Photographs

Annuals and Biennials

The seventeenth century heralded a golden age of exploration, as intrepid travelers sailed around the world to gain firsthand knowledge of previously unknown continents. These explorers also collected the world’s most beautiful flora, and often their findings were recorded for posterity by talented professional artists. The Golden Age of Botanical Art tells the story of these exciting plant-hunting journeys and marries it with full-color reproductions of the stunning artwork they produced. Covering work through the nineteenth century, this lavishly illustrated book offers readers a look at 250 rare or unpublished images by some of the world’s most important botanical artists. Truly global in its scope, The Golden Age of Botanical Art features work by artists from Europe, China, and India, recording plants from places as disparate as Africa and South America. Martyn Rix has compiled the stories and art not only of well-known figures—such as Leonardo da Vinci and the artists of Empress Josephine Bonaparte—but also of those adventurous botanists and painters whose names and work have been forgotten. A celebration of both extraordinarily beautiful plant life and the globe-trotting men and women who found and recorded it, The Golden Age of Botanical Art will enchant gardeners and art lovers alike.

The Golden Age of Botanical Art

Masumi Yamanaka

Hideaki Ohba

Japanese indigenous plants have fascinated botanists and horticulturalists for the past two centuries, and their discoveries still have a strong influence on the plants of today. Botanists such as Kaempfer, Thunberg, von Siebold, and Maximowicz visited Japan between the 17th and 19th centuries, and communicated and corresponded with many Japanese botanists; identifying, naming and classifying many native plants and sending specimens around the world. Many beautiful Japanese plants (e.g. Hydrangea, Lily, Hosta, Camellia) were introduced into European countries, influencing horticulture and the breeding of new varieties. And as a result, this interest in Japanese flora led to a stimulation of activity amongst botanical painters in Japan in depicting the native flora. Flora Japonica is a beautiful celebration of modern Japanese botanical art, featuring 80 specially commissioned botanical paintings of Japanese wild plants, contributed by 30 of the country's best contemporary artists. Each paintings is accompanied by text about the plant, including its natural history as well as botanical description and details of the specimen origin. Biographies of all 30 artists are included.

Flora Japonica

Pierre Joseph Redouté

Presents watercolors of hundreds of species of flowers, and describes the characteristics and background of each plant

Redouté's Fairest Flowers

Identifies nearly two thousand shrubs and provides information on range and planting requirements

Shrubs

Global in scope, this beautifully illustrated book explores the evolution and diversity of botanical art. It tells the stories of intrepid explorers and professional artists who recorded the flora they encountered in lands ranging from Russia to South America. Special features cover key figures and distinguished collections, while rare and previously unpublished images reveal how these illustrations contributed to our understanding of the world and the glories of nature.

This is a revised edition of the bestselling book about the life and work of artist and musician Rory McEwen (1932-82). A legend in his lifetime and still admired thirty years after his death, his main legacy is the wonderfully luminous and detailed flower paintings he produced throughout his life, of anemones, auriculas, tulips, fritillaries, and of often battered, dying leaves or mouldering vegetables.

The Colours of Reality

Rory McEwen

As part of the Pan Garden Plant series, this volume on perennials covers plants that flower in the late summer and autumn. This book includes photographs of over 1250 perennials from around the world as well as text describing the plant's origins, characteristics and frost hardiness.

Martyn Rix

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