de Vosjoli, P. Pachyforms. A Guide to Growing Pachycaul and Caudiform Plants. Includes Part 1 of a photographic catalog of Pachyforms.
1st. Ed. Pub. Advanced Visions. 2004 pp.319 with col. photos. throughout. Large 8vo. Fine softback. Out of print.
A complete guide to the selection and cultivation of caudiciforms and pachycauls; species that develop thick bodies with sculptural forms. The text is complemented with 389 color photos of some of the foremost examples of living art: giant babobab trees, passion flower relatives that resemble witch's cauldrons, and yams that become massive geodesic structures.
£80.00 [ref: 69413]

de Vosjoli, P. and Lime, R. Pachyforms Volume II. Bonsai Succulents. Includes Part 2 of a photographic catalog of Pachyforms.
1st. Ed. Pub. Advanced Visions. 2007 pp.387 with col. photos. throughout. Large 8vo. Fine softback. Out of print.
This is the second volume of Pachyforms, a series that focuses on the cultivation of sculptural plants characterized by unusually thick or globose bodies. The second portion of the book is a continuation of the catalog of pachyform plants started in volume I.
£80.00 [ref: 69416]

de Yarburgh-Bateson, Nina. Dried Flowers. The Art of Preserving and Arranging.
1st. Ed. Pub. Lutterworth Press. 1972. pp.169 with col. & b/w photos. 4to. Author’s signature to ffep. Nr. fine hardback in vg. dw. From the library of Peter Seabrook, horticulturalist, gardening writer and broadcaster, authenticated by his daughter, Alison Seabrook-Moore.
In this book the author describes the techniques she has evolved from years of experiment in pressing leaves, preserving flower-heads, varnishing seed-heads and drying grasses, mosses and lichens.
£10.00 [ref: 64389]

Dela-Croix, N. Britain’s Inspirational Gardens.
Pub. Garden Answers. 2004 pp.160 with colour photographs and other illus. A vg. copy in same dw.
£4.00 [ref: 40779]

Delamer, E.S. The Kitchen & Flower Garden.
New Ed. Pub. George Routledge. [1856] pp.viii, 184, viii, 181 with hand-col. frontis, b/w. text figs. Small 8vo. Hardback. AEG. Cords of two sections stretched o/w. contents fine. Original decorated cloth boards vg. plus. Scarce.
In two parts with the first concerning vegetable gardening and the second, flower growing.
£27.50 [ref: 70016]

Den Ouden, P. Manual of Cultivated Conifers. Hardy in the Cold- and Warm- Temperate Zone.
Pub. The Hague 1965 pp.x, 526 with b/w. photographs throughout. 4to. Hardback. Inscription to ffep. Contents in thor. vg. condition. Dustwrapper repaired in several places. Overall a vg. copy.
£15.00 [ref: 45716]

Dennison, Matthew. Behind the Mask. The Life of Vita Sackville-West.
Pub. William Collins. 2015 pp.xix, 364 with colour and b/w. photos. 8vo. New softback.
A biography of Vita Sackville-West - the celebrated author and poet, and the recluse who found in nature and her garden at Sissinghurst Castle, solace from the contradictions of her extraordinary life.
£9.99 [ref: 54739]

Donati, D. and Zanovello, C. Epithelantha.
1st. Ed. Pub. Cactus Trentino-Sudtirol. 2011 pp.64 with col. photos. & maps. 8vo. Fine softback.
Epithelantha is a genus of cactus that is native to north-eastern Mexico, and the south-western United States from western Texas to Arizona. There are eight species recognised in the genus Epithelantha. The name Epithelantha refers to the flower position near the apex of the tubercles.
£30.00 [ref: 69393]

Drysdale Woodcock, H. & Stearn, W.T. Lilies of the World.
Pub. Country Life. pp. 431 with plates and line drawings. VG. in now protected dw. which is lightly chipped in places.
£30.00 [ref: 31878]

Duggan, J. Plants in the Getty's Central Garden.
1st. Ed. Pub. Getty Publications. 2003 pp.ix, 148 with superb colour photos. throughout. 8vo. A fine softback.
Details the characteristics and growing habitats of nearly four hundred plants, each beautifully illustrated by noted garden photographer, Becky Cohen.
£10.00 [ref: 55102]