HYDRANGEAS (NEW EDTN) - Tapa dura

Gardener's favourites, hydrangeas are easily grown and propagated, highly decorative and long-lasting. With a season that runs from mid-summer to autumn, these beautiful plants offer enormous potential for gardens great and small. This new edition includes: fresh images, fully revised chapters on the genus, hydrangeas in the gardens, cultivation and propagation. Also, the final extensive chapter includes full details of 20 new cultivars and sub-species, bringing the total to over 95. Each of the full descriptions are illustrated by stunning photographs of the cultivar/sub-species, leaf silhouettes, and line drawings. The chapter 'Genus Hydrangea' includes more on Japanese cultivars and less hardy cultivars; the Cultivation chapter covers details of growing from seed, extends the information on well dressing, and includes more on diseases. The new cultivars to be covered include: 6 stunning Teller lace caps from Switzerland; plus H. serrata 'Tiara'; the American cultivar 'Oregon Pride'; 7 hardy Japanese cultivars; the Dutch cultivar 'All summer Beauty' and the French 'Ave Maria'.

Toni Lawson-Hall is a hydrangea enthusiast who (with Brian Rothera) built up the National Hydrangea Collection at the Lakeland Horticultural Society's garden in Windermere, Cumbria, England. This new edition is the result of her continued personal and professional experience. She has had the benefit of extensive contacts not only in Britain, but worldwide: the USA, France and Belgium have been particularly important sources of information.