Author: Jim Jermyn

Publisher/Date: Timber Press, 2005, 1st printing ISBN: 0881927341

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

Description: Plants from the mountain ranges of Europe are gorgeous and—as luck would have it—highly adaptable to our own gardens. Retracing his steps through the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Balkans, and the Carpathians, Jim Jermyn describes alpine plants in the wild and shares his understanding of their cultivation needs at home. In this armchair garden tour, popular alpines rub shoulders with exclusive rarities, including the choicest gentians, the most sweetly scented daphnes, and Dianthus in many shades of pink, from palest pastel to cerise, and Jermyn’s information may help gardeners to coax certain reluctant flowers to bloom, while enjoying success with other plants.