Description - Garden aloes by Gideon F. Smith
Authored by two leading international experts on aloes and their kin, Gideon F Smith and Estrela Figueiredo, both of the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa and the University of Coimbra in Portugal. Books have been written about aloe species before, but Garden aloes is a world-first, dealing with a range of the most desirable aloe cultivars and hybrids, all of which are exceptionally suitable for planting in gardens. These enhanced aloes have never before had a book dedicated to them. Garden aloes is comprehensively illustrated with full-colour photographs that show the growth forms and a range of the characters that make these plants some of the most desirable to grow in any garden. Identification of the cultivars is made easy through descriptions and a range of images of the plants, their inflorescences and flowers.In the book: the book is comprehensively illustrated with over 300 full-colour photographs of the plants, growth forms, inflorescences and flowers, informative descriptions and flowering periods are provided for more than 60 widely grown and exceptional cultivars and hybrids currently available and the species are arranged in 20 groups according to size and flower colour, making it easy to select what is suitable for your garden.
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