Author: Wim Snoeijer

Publisher/Date: Timber Press 2004 ISBN: 0881926310

Format/Condition: NEW hardcover book with dust jacket is in fine condition, 320 pages,

Description: Known as “lilies of the Nile” (though they’re native to South Africa), the showy perennials in the genus Agapanthus have been avidly collected and grown since they were discovered by Dutch explorers in the 17th century. The few species in the genus have been hybridized intensively, yielding hundreds of interesting and dramatic cultivars. With keys and more than 100 color photographs and naturalist paintings as an aid to identification, this guide comes from eight years of research by a frequent contributor to the official journal of the Royal Boskoop Horticultural Society. Wim Snoeijer offers detailed descriptions that include history, morphological details, color, and even DNA analysis.

“Anyone picking up the book just to look at the photographs will be won over immediately to the variety and beauty of the plants.”—William Grant