Bird, R. Cassell’s Directory of Climbers and Wall Shrubs. Everything you need to create a garden.
1st. Ed. Pub. Cassell. 2000 pp.112 with colour photos and illus., throughout. 4to. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
An instant reference to more than 250 plants.
£5.00 [ref: 46995]
Bisgrove, R. William Robinson. The Wild Gardener.
1st. Ed. Pub. Frances Lincoln. 2008 pp.256 with colour and b/w. photos and illus. 4to. Fine hardback in fine dw. Out-of-print.
Highly recommended. Despite his enormous literary output and position at the centre of a circle of distinguished horticulturists, William Robinson is a surprisingly enigmatic figure. Generous to friends and retainers but ferocious in his attacks on opponents, a populariser rather than a pioneer, he was undoubtedly one of the greatest figures in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century gardening.
£75.00 [ref: 64261]
Bloom, Alan. A Plantsman’s Perspective. Plants, people and places.
1st. Ed. Pub. Collins. 1987 pp.154. Large 8vo. With ‘Good wishes, Alan Bloom’ to ffep. Fine hardback in fine dw. From the library of Peter Seabrook, horticulturalist, gardening writer and broadcaster, authenticated by his daughter, Alison Seabrook-Moore.
Alan Bloom’s book describes a lifetime devoted to plants and gardening. Alan was the founder of Blooms of Bressingham and creator of the famous Bressingham Gardens.
£15.00 [ref: 64384]
Bloom, Alan. Mistress of Melthorpe.
1st. Ed. Pub. Aidan Ellis. 1996 pp.152. 8vo. With ‘Good wishes, Alan Bloom’ to ffep. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw. From the library of Peter Seabrook, horticulturalist, gardening writer and broadcaster, authenticated by his daughter, Alison Seabrook-Moore.
‘Throughout his life, Alan Bloom has had the opportunity to work among people and study them. Mistress of Melthorpe is a gentle observation of how people live and love, and will appeal to all gardeners and lovers of romance.’
£10.00 [ref: 64385]
Bowe, P. & Dehart, M.D. Gardens and Plants of the Getty Villa.
1st. Ed. Pub. Getty Publications. 2011 pp.159 with superb colour photos. throughout. 8vo. A fine softback.
An examination of the five villa gardens J. Paul Getty commissioned in California, looking at the ancient Roman garden design which inspired them, and the plants used to create them.
£10.00 [ref: 55103]
Bowles, E.A. A Handbook of Crocus and Colchicum for Gardeners.
Rev. Ed. Pub. The Bodley Head. 1955 pp.222 with colour and b/w. illus. 8vo. Hardback. Errata slip attached to half-title. Some light spotting to fore-edges of text block o/w. a fine hardback in vg. dw.
E.A. Bowles thoroughly revised edition of this classic work, which is based on his fifty years of experience of cultivating and studying these beautiful flowers.
£15.00 [ref: 67724]
Bowles, E.A. A Handbook of Narcissus.
1st. Ed. Pub. Martin Hopkinson. 1934 pp.248 with b/w. illus. 8vo. A little spotting to top-edge of text block, some spine lean o/w. a fine hardback in good to vg. dw.
A collection of information gathered from the works of earlier writers together with the author’s own observations of both the wild species and the garden-raised varities.
£50.00 [ref: 66945]
Bowles, E.A. My Garden in Spring. My Garden in Summer. My Garden in Autumn and Winter.
Rep. Ed. Pub. David & Charles. 1972 Three volume set with b/w. photos. 8vo. Thor. vg. hardbacks in thor. vg. dws.
Edward Augustus Bowles (1865-1954) was described as ‘the greatest amateur gardener of the past half-century’ by the President of the RHS. His eight acre garden at Myddelton House, Enfield, is now open to the public and home to a host of rare and unusual plants.
£50.00 [ref: 61638]
Bowles, E.A. My Garden in Spring. My Garden in Summer. My Garden in Autumn and Winter.
1st. Ed. Pub. T.C. & E.C Jack. 1914-15 Three volume set with colour plates and b/w. photos. 8vo. Bookplate of Villa Medici, Fiesole (Italy) to one volume. Scattered spotting to contents and some minor marking to prelims. of ‘Autumn and Winter’ volume. Original decorated boards in good to vg. condition.
£150.00 [ref: 66952]
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Brennan, G. Easy Roses.
Pub. Chronicle. 1995 pp.108 with colour photographs throughout. A vg. copy in card covers.
£2.00 [ref: 44623]