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Re: Evening/Night Plants/good books

At 9:22 PM +1000 4/8/98, Bobby Ward wrote:
>The book that Michael Bailes is probably thinking about is "The Evening
>Garden: Flowers and Fragrances from Dusk Till Dawn," by Peter Loewer
>(Macmillian Company, $25 U.S.). The book (250 pages) is also illustrated
>with numerous drawings by the author, who lives in Asheville, North
>Carolina. It was published in 1993.
Yes thats it!Ii must get another copy. I loved it.
I too tire of books written by journalists.
It is refreshing to find own written by a true plantsman.
>A more recent book, published in June 1998 is "The Moonlit Garden," by
>Scott Ogden (Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, TX, $16.96 U.S.). It
>contains color photographs (150 pages).  Scott is from Canyon Lake, Texas.
>
>Bobby Ward, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, USDA Zone 7.
Thanks Bobby I'll look out for this
ShouldI start a thread on favourite garden books.
One I loved was"The Startling Jungle by Stephen Lacey supurbly opinionated.


Michael Bailes.
Herbarist
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