Dwarf Campanulas

And Associated Genera

Campanulas have long been a gardeners' favorite, their spectacular summer performance earning them a place in the herbaceous border year after year. Here their lesser-known relatives, the smaller dwarf campanulas, take center stage. Everyone who grows campanulas will enjoy this book, finding uses for the diminutive yet exuberant forms at the front of the border as well as in rock gardens, alpine houses, troughs, and containers. More than 200 Campanula species and hybrids are described, and specialists and collectors will delight in the descriptions of rare and little-documented plants and devour the information about the plants' wild habitats. Color photographs enhance the text, encouraging gardeners to experiment with dwarf campanulas in a wide range of garden situations and appreciate the diversity of this rewarding group of plants.

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Media reviews of this book:

"Equally at home on coffee table and potting bench, this book brings Cook's masterpiece up-to-date. ... This book combines a colourful work of reference and identification with a practical growers' guide."

—Sue Wooster, Plantsman, August 2007

"Graham Nicholls, a renowned U.K. nurseryman, excels in providing comprehensive cultivation and propagation information."

—Ann Bartlett, Saximontana, April 2007

"At last we have a book ... which brings things up to date."

—John Good, Alpine Gardener, March 2007

An excerpt from this book:

Like many other enthusiastic beginners to gardening, when I bought my first plants I positioned them as I thought fit and where I could see and enjoy them, with no thought of the plants' needs. Sometimes it was a success and the plants thrived, but other times they slowly died. There was, of course, greater frustration when the plant was an irreplaceable gift. In this chapter I give advice on propagation and cultivation, mainly of campanulas (although there is some discussion of other members of the Campanulaceae), in the hope that readers will have greater successes and fewer disappointments than they may have had in the past ...

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