Phlomis
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Phlomis
- From: t*@eddy.u-net.com (Tim Longville)
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 19:48:10 GMT
Jim Mann Taylor, who's a member of this list, seems understandably to
be going to be too modest and tactful to puff his own recent book on
his favourite genus, published here in the UK so easily missed by many
of you but which I thought members might like to know about. So far as
I'm aware, it has the field to itself, so if you're at all interested
in this attractive and quintessentially Mediterranean bunch, this may
well be a book for you. It's called PHLOMIS: THE NEGLECTED GENUS. The
ISBN is 0-9532413-0-0. It's 88 pages long and it costs 6.90 sterling.
It has brief chapters on distribution, propagation and similar issues
but the meat of the book is a complete listing (with detailed
botanical descriptions and line drawings of features useful in
identification) of all the spp known to be in cultivation (at least in
Europe: I don't know if Jim has aimed to include spp which may not be
in cultivation here but perhaps are elsewhere in the world). I'm
sorry: I don't know about its cost in other currencies or about p & p
charges. It's published by Jim in collaboration with the UK National
Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens and you can get it
(and more info. about it) from the NCCPG at The Stables, RHS Gardens,
Wisley, Woking, Surrey GU23 6QP. It certainly opened my own eyes to
some attractive-sounding spp I hadn't previously known about and ones
distinctly different from what comes into at least my own head when
someone says the word 'phlomis.' Ie, there's more to this gang than
you might imagine. Personally, I'd have liked the valuable scientific
stuff illuminated by more about Jim's own experiences with growing the
plants in a garden situation - but perhaps (I hope!) he's saving that
up for a second volume.
Tim Longville
