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A Book of Blue Flowers

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Blue is a rare, sought after color in the gardening world and this provides a review of those hybridized species which provide blue flower. Robert Geneve's Book of Blue Flowers presents over 150 genera whose flowers cover all types of blue hues: while many would be better described as 'purple', some ' as menconopsis horridula - are pure blue. Packed with details gardeners will appreciate.

Let me first say that I have the hard-back edition of this book, so if it has been amended in this paperback edition, please disregard this.
To be fair, the content of this book is not bad per se. It does have useful & relavant information about all of the species it covers. However, I must give it a poor review based soley on its title: Practically every photograph in this book is of a purple flower. There are only a handful that I would even generously call blue. What's worse is that several of the species, such as Delphinium where I know there are pure blue varieties, are depicted with purple varieties. I can think of several pure blue flowers in the world that are not even mentioned in this book. So, if you purchase this book, prepare to be disappointed.