Bulb

by Anna Pavord

In this personal selection and authoritative guide to the most gorgeous bulbs on the earth, Anna Pavord, author of the Tulip, writes charmingly about her favorite subject from Acis to Zigadenus via Hyacinth and Crocus. After a fascinating introduction explaining why bulbs are different from other kinds of plants, where they come from, and their history, over five hundred different types of bulbs are featured alphabetically in a jewel-box-like gallery.

Bulb describes not just garden standards like daffodils and tulips (geophytes for neophytes?) but more temperamental gems like crinum and nerine. I'd like to know if there is any way to obtain x Chinoscilla besides smuggling them in checked baggage on the way back from my next trip to England. The eye-popping photography by the great Andrew Lawson expresses pictorially what Anna Pavord writes about so enthusiastically. Out of a frequently homely package will amazingly arise some of the most beautiful flowers in the world.

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Why John loves Bulb:

*An authoritative guide to these gorgeous plants, from familiar favorite to rare gems you've never seen
*The beautiful photography will inspire you to fill your containers, pots, and garden plots with bulbs and more bulbs!

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