Essential Plants for the Garden An Illustrated Guide to Identifying and Growing Over 1000 Plants

Richard Bird has been gardening since childhood and currently maintains a large garden where his abiding passion for plants is very evident. He has contributed to numerous publications and has been magazine editor for Focus on Plants, The Hardy Plant, Alpine Gardening and The Alpine Garden Society's magazine, Bulletin. He is also a full-time author on gardens and plants and has written nearly 30 books on subjects as diverse as alpines and rock gardens, lilies, annuals, organic gardening and window boxes.Bird, Richard is the author of 'Essential Plants for the Garden An Illustrated Guide to Identifying and Growing Over 1000 Plants', published 2004 under ISBN 9780754813453 and ISBN 0754813452.