The history of rhododendrons is full of swashbuckling plant collectors and visionary gardeners, colonial violence and ecological destruction, stunning botanical successes and bitter business disappointments. And it is here related with consummate skill by Jane Brown, an English garden writer clearly besotted by these "glorious and scented strangers, with their mouth-watering candy colors, their cascades of way bells or iridescent globes proffered in ruffs of green leaves."
- ISBN10 1567923127
- ISBN13 9781567923124
- Publish Date 18 May 2006 (first published 19 April 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 3 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint David R. Godine Publisher Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English