Customer Reviews

Poppies: The Poppy Family in the Wild and in Cultivation

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Poppies is a well written and well organized book covering the main subfamilies and genera of the poppy species. Illustrations are included to clarify the in depth descriptions. This book is best suited for someone with a biology/botony background. I would not recomend this book to the casual gardener, as it is more of a college level text, complete with scientific names. The color plate in the middle of the book was a nice addition.

This is definitely a good book for a general overview on poppies. It has info on tons of different strains and species of the plant, but that's exactly where I think this book has it's weakness.

This book is very much quantity over quality. The author covers many different types of poppies but doesn't give too much information on them other than a basic overview. I was hoping the book would focus on the few popular species of poppy (rhoeas, orental, somniferum, Eschscholzia, etc.) giving thorough information then dividing the various species into less detailed strain descriptions.

The pictures are nice, but I wish they were with the various sections and not only in the middle pages.

Overall I say this book isn't that great. I don't know of one, but there must be a better book on poppies out there.

plus - great for botanists

minus - how to grow, not so many images, images should have been on each page.

however it is a detailed book.

i hiley recomend this for beginers or indestrey bying this book was the best thing i could have done to laern all i needed to about growing or coltevating popies of all spiecies and how they grow in the garden or in the wild

This remarkable and beautifully illustrated guide to the poppy family covers both wild and cultivated poppies around the world, updating and extensively revising the only book available on the topic. From general traits and cultivation to specifics to genera and species grouped by subfamilies, Poppies is recommended for college-level horticultural students with a special, technical interest in growing poppies.