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Azaleas
Revised and Enlarged Edition
Fred C. Galle
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$79.95
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While the heart of this book is its treatment of all the species of azaleas and more than 6000 cultivars, it also offers information on every aspect of growing and using azaleas in the garden, including landscaping, companion plants, culture, pests and diseases, hybridizing, and bonsai. It is the definitive book on the subject.
627 pp, 366 color photos, numerous b/w photos & line drawings, 8 1/2 x 11", hardcover, © 1985, 1987
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The Book of Rhododendrons
Marianna Kneller
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$45.00
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During a period as artist-in-residence at Exbury Gardens, home of the celebrated Rothschild rhododendrons. She spent 15 years meticulously documenting the genus Rhododendron. This magnificent book is a collection of her paintings of rhododendron species, executed with delicacy and skill. Each painting illustrates the eight-month growing cycle and includes the flowering branch, bud, flower division and profile, new leaf growth, and seedhead.
160 pp, 73 color plates, 18 line drawings, 9 3/4 x 13 1/2", hardcover, © 1995
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Cox's Guide to Choosing Rhododendrons
Peter A. Cox and Kenneth N. E. Cox
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$24.95
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This guide suggests the best species and hybrids for moderate climates. It includes 100 species, 200 hybrids, and both deciduous and evergreen azaleas that can form the core of an interesting collection.
176 pp, 125 color photos, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2", hardcover, © 1990
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Cox's Guide to Choosing Rhododendrons
Peter A. Cox and Kenneth N. E. Cox
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$19.95
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This guide suggests the best species and hybrids for moderate climates. It includes 100 species, 200 hybrids, and both deciduous and evergreen azaleas that can form the core of an interesting collection.
176 pp, 125 color photos, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2", paperback, © 1990
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The Himalayan Garden: Growing Plants from the Roof of the World
Jim Jermyn
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$34.95
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In this unique resource, Jim Jermyn offers not the usual botanical travelogue but instead a horticultural handbook that allows lowland gardeners to successfully grow those plants that are native to the high Himalaya mountains. The highlights include species of Euphorbia, Gentiana, Meconopsis, Primula, Rhododendron, and more.
These plants are guaranteed to add an exotic touch to any garden, and with Jermyn's expert instructions and tips, they can be easily maintained. Excellent photographs round out an introduction to the plants, and the book includes a comprehensive list of recommended sources.
320 pp, 128 color photos, 3 line drawings, 2 maps, 6 x 9", hardcover, © 2001
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The Illustrated Rhododendron: Their Classification Portrayed through the Artwork of Curtis's Botanical Magazine
Pat Halliday
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$69.95
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This book presents 121 plates, all of the subgenera, sections, and series as classified by the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. The text provides an interesting account of the introduction of the illustrated species into cultivation, its history, distribution, habitat, relationships with other species, and its classification.
274 pp, 120 color illus., 4 line drawings, 8 1/4 x 11 3/4", hardcover, © 2001
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Production of Florist Azaleas
Roy A. Larson
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$17.95
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The books in the Timber Press Grower's Handbook Series (Allan M. Armitage, General Editor) are intended as practical guides for professionals raising these floral crops. They cover the nuts and bolts of commercial production from start to postharvest handling and marketing.
160 pp, 24 color photos, 20 tables, 6 x 9", paperback, © 1993
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Rhododendron Hybrids
Second Edition
Homer E. Salley and Harold E. Greer
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$59.95
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Based on the journals maintained at Greer Gardens, this pedigree book of some 5000 hybrids is organized by grex so that hybrids of the same parents are listed together, with cross-references from the hybrid name. The photographs are all different from those in the first edition.
442 pp, 592 color photos, 8 1/2 x 11", hardcover, © 1992
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Rhododendron Portraits
D. M. van Gelderen and J. R. P. van Hoey Smith
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$75.00
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TThis beautiful work by two great Dutch plantsmen presents the largest selection of color photographs of elepidote rhododendron species, varieties, hybrids, and cultivars ever gathered in one volume, a lavish tribute to the most spectacular of flowering shrubs.
424 pp, 1150 color photos, 8 1/2 x 11", hardcover, © 1992
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The Rhododendron Species: Volume II: Elepidotes (Arboreum-Lacteum)
H. H. Davidian
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$54.95
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A complete taxonomic and historical account of the cultivated species of Rhododendron, with keys for identification of the series and species. Its scope and thoroughness, the fruit of more than 40 years' research at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, are incomparable.
392 pp, 159 color photos, 7 b/w photos, 2 maps, 46 line drawings, 8 1/2 x 11", hardcover, © 1989
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The Rhododendron Species: Volume III: Elepidotes continued (Neriiflorum-Thomsonii, Azaleastrum and Camtschaticum)
H. H. Davidian
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$54.95
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A complete taxonomic and historical account of the cultivated species of Rhododendron, with keys for identification of the series and species. Its scope and thoroughness, the fruit of more than 40 years' research at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, are incomparable.
429 pp, 161 color photos, 8 b/w photos, 35 b/w illus., 8 1/2 x 11", hardcover, © 1992
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The Rhododendron Species: Volume IV: Azaleas
H. H. Davidian
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$54.95
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The 104 species of azaleas are here classified into five subseries, with keys. The full-size line drawings aid identification; the color photographs show azaleas in their native habitats and in cultivation.
232 pp, 163 color plates, 7 b/w photos, 30 line drawings, 8 1/2 x 11", hardcover, © 1995
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Rhododendrons in the Landscape
Sonja Nelson
Illustrations by Nicholas Brown
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$29.95
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Sonja Nelson, editor of the Journal American Rhododendron Society, offers guidance on how best to use rhododendrons in woodland and alpine rock gardens, small gardens, and elements such as island beds, containers, hedges, and water features.
255 pp, 52 color photos, 10 b/w illus., 19 tables, 6 x 9", hardcover, © 2000
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The Slipper Orchids
Catherine Cash
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$49.95
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Presenting both the botanical and horticultural aspects of Cypripedium, Paphiopedilum, Phragmipedium, and Selenipedium, with particularly extensive information on hybridization, this survey of the slipper subfamily has been aptly described as "a scholarly work of love for these plants."
304 pp, 225 color photos, 8 1/2 x 11", hardcover, © 1991
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The Smaller Rhododendrons
Peter A. Cox
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$29.95
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295 pp, 8 color paintings, 41 b/w photos, 55 line drawings, 6 1/2 x 9 1/2", hardcover, © 1985
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Success with Rhododendrons and Azaleas
H. Edward Reiley
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$22.95
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Based on years of practical experience, this book provides specific details on how to grow rhododendrons well, with lists of plants suitable for various climates and conditions throughout the U.S., Canada, U.K., and Australia.
314 pp, 87 color photos, 6 x 9", paperback, © 1992
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Vireyas: A Practical Gardening Guide
John Kenyon and Jacqueline Walker
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$19.95
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Vireyas, tropical and subtropical rhododendrons, are the least known of the genus, although they are increasing in popularity. They can be grown outdoors in warm areas with mild winters or overwintered indoors in pots in colder climates. They offer a striking range of flower colors and intriguingly unpredictable blooming times.
96 pp, 69 color photos, 7 x 9 3/4", paperback, © 1997
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