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The Explorers Garden - Shrubs and Vines from the Four Corners of the World | | |  If you thought the age of the great plant explorers was over, guess again. Dan Hinkley, founder of the legendary Heronswood Nursery, has scoured the globe for botanical treasures, a bounty that has enriched gardens throughout the world. He presents the most outstanding shrubs and vines from his plant-collecting trips to Chile, Costa Rica, South Africa, Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, Nepal,Bhutan, India, New Zealand, Europe, and North America.Explorers will encounter little-known exotics such as the sapphire-berrieddichroas and vermilion-floweredDesfontainea spinosa(Chilean holly). The Explorer's Garden:Shrubs and Vines from the Four Cornersof the World also includes morefamiliar, but just as garden-worthy, plants such as witch hazels, hydrangeas, and sassafras. In everycase, Hinkley zeroes in on why the plant deserves your garden space and what you can expect as theplant matures. Excerpts from Hinkley's travel journals evoke the plant's native setting with poeticprecision, painting seductive portraits of the monkey-puzzle forests of South America or the rhododendron-clad slopes of the Himalayas.As this brimming collection makes clear, there are still scores of exciting plants that await wider useby the gardening public. Readers who yearn for an expert guide to this cornucopia of riches will find nobetter companion than Dan Hinkley.authors: Daniel J. Hinkley
pages: 400 pp
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