Darke, R. The Colour Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses. Sedges, Rushes, Restios, Cat-tails and selected Bamboos.
1st. Pub. Weidenfeld & Nicholson. 1999 pp. 325 with many coloured plates. VG. copy in dw. lightly bumped on corners. In-print at £32.50.
£25.00 [ref: 38856]

Darke, R. (Ed.). Manual of Grasses.
1st. Ed. Pub. Macmillan. 1994 pp.xlvi, 169 with line drawings throughout. 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
The text here is derived from ‘The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening’ which was originally published in 1992 in four volumes.
£4.00 [ref: 46303]

Davis, A.P. The Genus Galanthus. A Botanical Magazine Monograph.
1st. Ed. Pub. RBG. Kew. 1999 pp.297 with col. illus., photos and dist. maps. 8vo. Fine hardback in nr. fine dw.
This was the first full-length monograph on the Snowdrop or Galanthus since 1956. The work documents eighteen species, their subspecies and varieties, and describes the most important of the more than 500 cultivars.
£70.00 [ref: 67731]

Davis, T.D. et al. (Eds.). Adventitious Root Formation in Cuttings. Advances in Plant Sciences Series Volume 2.
1st. Ed. Pub. Dioscorides Press. 1988 pp.315 with b/w. figs., and tables. Large 8vo. A nr. fine hardback in fine dw., gently sunned.
The first comprehensive treatment of the striking of roots from above ground parts of plants.
£10.00 [ref: 56916]

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]

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]

Don, Montagu. The Prickotty Bush. The Story of a Garden.
1st. Ed. Pub. Macmillan. 1990 pp.290 with b/w. illus. 8vo. Fine hardback in fine dw. with very gently sunned spine.
Monty Don’s first book. When Don moved to The Hanburies in Herefordshire (late 1980s) the garden was a ruin. He wanted to transform it to include terraces, a croquet lawn, an orchard, herb and kitchen gardens and secret gardens. The Prickotty Bush is his diary of the development of his garden and within it he describes his journey through freaks of weather, ill health and financial disaster.
£80.00 [ref: 67744]

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]