This work on the family Boraginaceae details the biology, ecology, and cultivation of more than 200 species and hundreds of varieties. This family includes not only the popular genus Pulmonaria (commonly known as lungworts), but also many other highly ornamental plants. Apart from the old favorites such as forget-me-nots, comfrey, borage, heliotrope, and alkanet, the book details many less well known plants that include honeywort, gromwell, languid-ladies, and prophet flower. It gives full details on the biology and classification of Boraginaceae, pulmonarias in their habitat, cultivation and propagation, descriptions of Pulmonaria species and cultivars, and other plants of the borage family in the wild and in cultivation.
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This work on the family Boraginaceae details the biology, ecology, and cultivation of more than 200 species and hundreds of varieties. This family includes not only the popular genus Pulmonaria (commonly known as lungworts), but also many other highly ornamental plants.
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Maria Bennett is a botanist, horticulturalist and naturalist. She has worked in gardens, nurseries, research, education and training, and has studied Boraginaceae for five years, both in gardens and in the wild, on three continents. She has been ghost-writing weekly gardening articles for a well-known horticultural journalist and TV presenter for two and half years. Maria co-ordinates and leads plant-hunting tours for the Alpine Garden Society.
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This chapter will deal exclusively with the genus Pulmonaria - the lungworts - including details of their naming, structure, biology, cultivation, and propagation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
angustifolia hort, specialist herbaceous, softly hairy perennial, stellate bristles, headlike stigma, bristly perennial, pulmonaria flowers, biennial echiums, other pulmonarias, cymes without bracts, longifolia hybrid, specialist alpine nurseries, perennial comfrey, pulmonaria species, bristly biennial, most pulmonarias, echium species, hairy biennial, protection from winter wet, pulmonaria cultivars, sunny mixed border, perennial arising, opening from pink buds, fruit dispersal, oblanceolate basal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, Dan Heims, Howard Rice, Red List of Threatened Plants, Terra Nova Nurseries, Award of Garden Merit, Margery Fish, Masha Bennett, Beth Chatto, Erich Pasche, Cambridge Blue Group, Argentea Group, British Columbia, South Africa, Vanessa Cook, Hardy Plant Society, Jennifer Hewitt, New Mexico, Pulmonaria Group, Royal Horticultural Society, South Island, Joe Sharman, South America, Canary Islands, Roy Genders New!
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This chapter will deal exclusively with the genus Pulmonaria - the lungworts - including details of their naming, structure, biology, cultivation, and propagation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
angustifolia hort, specialist herbaceous, softly hairy perennial, stellate bristles, headlike stigma, bristly perennial, pulmonaria flowers, biennial echiums, other pulmonarias, cymes without bracts, longifolia hybrid, specialist alpine nurseries, perennial comfrey, pulmonaria species, bristly biennial, most pulmonarias, echium species, hairy biennial, protection from winter wet, pulmonaria cultivars, sunny mixed border, perennial arising, opening from pink buds, fruit dispersal, oblanceolate basal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, Dan Heims, Howard Rice, Red List of Threatened Plants, Terra Nova Nurseries, Award of Garden Merit, Margery Fish, Masha Bennett, Beth Chatto, Erich Pasche, Cambridge Blue Group, Argentea Group, British Columbia, South Africa, Vanessa Cook, Hardy Plant Society, Jennifer Hewitt, New Mexico, Pulmonaria Group, Royal Horticultural Society, South Island, Joe Sharman, South America, Canary Islands, Roy Genders New!
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- Color Your Garden: The Royal Horticultural Society (Rhs) by Jill Billington on 5 pages
- Flora of the British Isles by A. R. Clapham on page 223, and page 225
- Sierra Nevada by Verna R. Johnston on page 203, and page 204
- International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (Regnum Vegetabile Ser.; Vol. 133) by Piers Trehane in Front Matter, and page 225
- Canary Islands (Passport's Illustrated Travel Guide to Canary Islands from Thomas Cook) by Paul Murphy on page 223, and page 224
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