It is hard to imagine gardens without peonies, flowering peaches, camellias, gardenias, azaleas, wisteria, forsythia, crabapples, and the host of other ornament

This major reference book carries on from where Siren's The Gardens of China left off 50 years ago. It documents in typical Valder-style 400 of the best-loved p

A unique addition to the botanical literature, this book presents the flora of China in its astonishing diversity.

Celebrates the skilled gardeners of Imperial China through new research that opens a new chapter in the story of our garden plants.

The food plants of an area provide the material basis for the survival of its population, and furnish inspiring stimuli for cultural development. There are two