Rick Darke

"Rick Darke combines a deep horticultural knowledge with extraordinary perceptions as a photographer... through his remarkable tutorage (we)... can see these glorious plants afresh - providing a new appreciation of their many garden uses and values." - John Patrick. This book provides a huge range of grasses in encyclopedic form as well as covering botanical characteristics and how grasses can be used for garden design, and ecological and cultural landscapes. He is one of the world's great botanical photographers and in the 484 pages, there are over 1000 brilliant images of individual plants and hundreds of gardens and landscapes in which grasses play a prominent part.

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