This intensely practical account drawn from the long experience of Robin White has been eagerly awaited by Daphne enthusiasts and collectors. Acute observation of the growth, flowering characteristics, and foibles of daphnes documented here will be studied and taken up by gardeners everywhere. A diverse genus, Daphne has a wide distribution ensuring suitable candidates for a variety of garden situations including shade positions, sunny borders, raised beds, containers, and rock gardens. This book will ensure daphnes are better known and more widely grown. It will undoubtedly remain the standard work on daphnes for years to come.
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"A thorough, well-photographed guide to these supremely fragrant shrubs that will appeal to beginning gardeners as well as pros."—Valerie Easton, Seattle Times, January 21, 2006 (Valerie Easton Seattle Times )
"Robin White has very effectively blended his long experience of growing, propagating and observing daphnes in this excellent and very informative book that will prove an invaluable aid to all gardeners."— Rainy Side Gardeners, May 8, 2006 (Rainy Side Gardeners )
"Encourages gardeners to plant away, assuring us that all the rumors of cantankerous and finicky daphnes have been greatly exaggerated."—Joan Morris, Contra Costa Times, February 4, 2006 (Joan Morris Contra Costa Times )
"Robin White has very effectively blended his long experience of growing, propagating and observing daphnes in this excellent and very informative book that will prove an invaluable aid to all gardeners."— Rainy Side Gardeners, May 8, 2006 (Rainy Side Gardeners )
"Encourages gardeners to plant away, assuring us that all the rumors of cantankerous and finicky daphnes have been greatly exaggerated."—Joan Morris, Contra Costa Times, February 4, 2006 (Joan Morris Contra Costa Times )
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Eagerly awaited by Daphne enthusiasts and collectors, this is an intensely practical account of a remarkably diverse and reputedly difficult genus. It will ensure daphnes are better known and more widely grown, and it will undoubtedly remain the standard work on daphnes for years to come.
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The genus Daphne, as described by Linnaeus, belongs to the family Thymelaeaceae. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
main spring flush, smaller daphnes, caducous bracts, growing daphnes, unripened growth, perianth lobes, axillary growths, soft tip cuttings, daphne species, perianth tube, new summer growth, many daphnes, daphne roots, most daphnes, vigorous young plants, basal cuttings, polythene tunnel, fleshy pericarp, named clones, more open habit, terminal inflorescences, axillary inflorescences, grafted plants, spontaneous hybrid, main flush Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United Kingdom, Chris Brickell, Peter Erskine, United States, Propagation Semi-ripe, Propagation Seed, Fritz Kummert, Kath Dryden, French Pyrenees, Harry Jans, John Fielding, Propagation Soft, White Parentage, Hugo Latymer, John Bieber, Propagation Fresh-sown, Severin Schlyter, Brian Mathew, Lake Garda, New Zealand New!
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The genus Daphne, as described by Linnaeus, belongs to the family Thymelaeaceae. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
main spring flush, smaller daphnes, caducous bracts, growing daphnes, unripened growth, perianth lobes, axillary growths, soft tip cuttings, daphne species, perianth tube, new summer growth, many daphnes, daphne roots, most daphnes, vigorous young plants, basal cuttings, polythene tunnel, fleshy pericarp, named clones, more open habit, terminal inflorescences, axillary inflorescences, grafted plants, spontaneous hybrid, main flush Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United Kingdom, Chris Brickell, Peter Erskine, United States, Propagation Semi-ripe, Propagation Seed, Fritz Kummert, Kath Dryden, French Pyrenees, Harry Jans, John Fielding, Propagation Soft, White Parentage, Hugo Latymer, John Bieber, Propagation Fresh-sown, Severin Schlyter, Brian Mathew, Lake Garda, New Zealand New!
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