Christopher Lloyd's Garden Flowers : Perennials, Bulbs, Grasses, Ferns
Editorial Reviews
Rachael Green, American Reference Books Annual, 2001
Always informative and always entertaining (a rare quality for a reference book) . . . A volume that belongs in every gardening collection.
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Marty Figley Michigan Observer and Eccentric : Christopher Lloyd's Garden Flowers should be on every gardener's bookshelf.
Jean S. Wexler Vineyard Gazette : Get this book. It will provide endless hours of pleasure.
Sarah Robertson Eugene Register-Guard : This latest book of Lloyd's is a wonderfully personal encyclopedia...
Carol Stocker Boston Globe : No dedicated gardener would want to give up reading the great British garden writers like Christopher Lloyd, who has condensed a lifetime of sometimes rude and always passionate opinions into a wonderful new book.
Kristine Moe Seattle Times : Want help picking a terrific plant for your garden? You'll find it in this exciting book, which summarizes gardening maestro Christopher Lloyd's lifetime of experimentation and observation at his famed English estate.
Buffalo Spree : Every entry, from Achillea to Zigadenus, is equally distinguished by Lloyd's iconoclastic and delightful words of plant wisdom.
Adrian Higgins Washington Post : In telling us what they know [Christopher] Lloyd and [Pamela] Harper cannot help also telling us what they see and what they think. This not only makes their accounts entertaining, but also reveals the inner workings of the gardener's mind, qualities that transcend the local, climatic vagaries of their respective gardens.
North County Times : A unique opportunity for gardeners everywhere to benefit from a master's experience.
Rachael Green American Reference Books Annual : Always informative and always entertaining (a rare quality for a reference book).... It is a volume that belongs in every gardening collection.
Barney Lipscomb Sida, Contributions to Botany : This is a one man band covering everything from Acanthus to Zigadenus.
Linda Coyner Senior Women Web : Without wasting words, he uses his refreshing dry humor to sum up his experience with each genus. The book's design is crisp and clean. The photographs ar generous and offer lovely glimpses into the master gardener's garden.
David Bennett McMullin Perennial Notes : Each entry is entertaining and informative.
Northeast Colorado Gardening Newsletter : The encyclopedic format of the book begins, making it easy for the gardener to look up a given plant and discover the positive and negative things Lloyd has to say about it.
Northeast Colorado Gardening Newsletter : At 384 pages, this hefty book, with its superb photos to inspire you, sage advice to educate you, and sardonic humor to enertain you, would be great for winter perusal and an equally good choice as a gift for your favorite gardening friend.
Alex Waterhouse-Hayward Western Living : There are garden books that are practical, and there are garden books that look good on your coffee table. And then there are garden books that you read in bed even if you don't have a garden. Such are the books of the very English, very opinionated and very snobbish Christopher Lloyd.
Pamela Lord Gardener for the Prairies : Having criticized some British imports, I'll now make amends and rave about Christopher Lloyd's Garden Flowers for its beauty, explicit cultural information and contrarian wit.
Nigel Colborn Garden (Peterborough) : This is an important addition to my library, and will be used constantly.
Library Journal : This is an excellent book.
Biology Digest : These chock-full, fascinating pages may leave readers in awe that someone has been able to try so many plants and absorb so much detailed information.
Suzanne Hively Cleveland Plain Dealer : For an appraisal of plant life, the book can't be topped.
Patricia A. Taylor Trenton Times : A treat to read.
FTD in Bloom : Imagine being taken under the wing of a master gardener.
Marge Howard-Jones Pacific Horticulture : One of the first great plant books of the twenty-first century: an engaging personal survey of the perennial world . . . Thoroughly delightful reading for garden lovers anywhere.
California Garden : Christopher Lloyd's characteristic enthusiasm for perennials bubbles forth from this volume.
Linda Cobb Spartanburg Herald-Journal : I like a book with great pictures, and this book has got it . . . An explosion of color.
Rebecca Sawyer-Fay Country Living Gardener : [Christopher Lloyd's] sumptously illustrated text shares a lifetime of trial and error.
Judy Glattstein Home Monthly : He has a thorough knowledge of plants, their culture and combinations with flair. The book is as much fun to read as a good novel.
Valerie Easton Horticulture : [This] is the book to own. It is that rarest of beasts - a reference book with a human voice . . . to read through again and again, both for entertainment as well as to learn more than you can imagine coming from one person's brain.
Adele Kleine Chicago Botanic Garden : This is a book to own, to read piecemeal and to enjoy.
Science News : It is hard to imagine any gardener anywhere using and re-using this book without pleasure, excitement, instruction, amusement, and the frequent reaction: "I must grow this . . . we really must get that." It is surely impossible to read it without looking at the garden with new eyes and new ideas.
Dulcy Mahar Oregonian : My personal favorite. The prolific Lloyd is delightfully opinionated and crusty.
Ann Milovsoroff Pappus : The photos are "hot stuff" in terms of the color combinations and interesting plants . . . Quite obviously this book is great reading, and wil certainly encourage you to be daring.
Jimmy Williams Paris (TN) Post Intelligencer : One of the big reasons Lloyd is my favorite garden writer is his totally honest, opinionated, and even acidic commentary.
Wisley Bookshop : A treat for gardeners everywhere, this is the author's lifetime study of the gardener's main materials and indispensable elements of a beautiful garden.
Gardens Illustrated : Described by Anna Pavord as 'the book I have been waiting for all my gardening life', here is yet another invaluable book from Britain's most esteemed garden writer and plantsman.
Garden (Peterborough) : Christopher Lloyd's new book, Garden Flowers, demonstrates all that is best about our greatest garden plantsman. No-one else can do practical advice so pithily.
National Council of State Garden Clubs Book Reviews : His humorous remarks, entertaining and educating, along with plants listed A-Z for easy access, as well as, his great knowledge of plants will be appreciated by the garden reader.
Marianne Binetti Seattle Post-Intelligencer : A much loved English garden writer with an eye for details, Lloyd spills the stored-up beans with lavish descriptions of his favorite plants and their growing tips.
Verlyn Klinkenborg New York Times Book Review : A lifetime of experience among plants has been distilled, species by species, variety by variety, into a highly distinguished abecedarium.
Avant Gardener : The essence of this famous gardener's lifetime of experience – a monumental and lively report of everything he has learned, thought, seen tried, liked or regretted about a great range of perennial plants.
Sarah Robertson Roseburg News-Review : What I like most about this book is Lloyd's obvious (and infectious!) love of plants that permeate every eloquently written word.
Christopher Lloyd's Garden Flowers : Perennials, Bulbs, Grasses, Ferns
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