Are you a gardener who struggles to accurately name or describe your plant discoveries? Are you curious about botanical gardens and want to learn more?
This informative guide gives gardeners a better understanding of what they see and a way to categorize and organize the natural world in which they are so intimately involved. In this guide you will find concise definitions and detailed black and white illustrations. It defines 1300 words commonly used by botanists, naturalists, and gardeners to describe plants.
- Authors: Susan K. Pell, Bobbi Angell
- Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
- Publication Year: 2016
- Hardcover
- 228 pages
- Product Dimensions: 7.25″ x 0.94″ x 9.38”
About the authors: Bobbi Angell creates richly detailed pen and ink drawings for botanists at the New York Botanical Garden and other institutions, and for many years illustrated the New York Times Garden Q&A column. She lives in southern Vermont and is a gardener and printmaker as well as an illustrator.
Her co-author was Susan K. Pell, Ph.D., former Director of Science at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, is the Deputy Director and Science and Public Programs Manager at the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C.
