The sweet pea is one of the most popular and evocative of summer flowers, loved for its unsurpassed fragrance, range of colours and ease of cultivation. Authoritative and inspiring, The Sweet Pea Book covers: History of sweet peas; Classification; Descriptions of all available varieties; Raising sweet peas; Growing and breeding sweet peas; Problems with sweet peas (peasts and diseases); Fragrance; Sweet peas in the garden; Sweet peas in the house (cut flowers); Exhibiting sweet peas; Sweet peas in the United States; Sweet peas in Australia; Illustrated in colour throughout by studio plates, plant portraits and plant association pictures by the author and the award-winning American garden photographer Judy White.
A propos de l’auteur
Graham Rice is the gardening correspondent for the London Evening Standard and a world authority on annuals of all kinds. He is the author of 15 books, including the award-winning Hardy Perennials. He writes regularly for BBC Gardeners' World and other magazines and sits on a number of Royal Horticultural Society committees. He also judges the flower trials at Wisley for the Royal Horticultural Society.
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