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Tropical plants for home and garden / William Warren ; photographs by Luca Invernizzi Tettoni.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Warren, William, 1930-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tropical plants--Pictorial works.
- Tropical plants.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1997.
- Summary:
- With sections on flowering shrubs and annuals, foliage plants, ornamental trees, ornamental vines and creepers, palms, exotics, water plants, ground covers, ferns and orchids, Tropical Plants serves as a guide, an aid to identification and an historical survey. Tettoni's remarkable photographs of plants and flowers meticulously observed and documented are the perfect means of capturing the beauty of the plants and their backgrounds. Warren's detailed knowledge of plants that flourish in hot climates is applied not only to the tropics themselves, but to varieties that are suitable for cultivation in the United States, Europe and other non-tropical areas.
- Notes:
- "With 449 color illustrations."
- "Published also under the title: Tropical garden plants.
- Includes bibliographcal references (page 238) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0500017956
- OCLC:
- 38043896
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