Re: Phlomis

My thanks to Tim Longville for his kind words about my new book. I think
the descriptions should cover most plants grown WORLDWIDE as I did scan
most Botanic Gardens through their Index Seminums, I also visited many such
as Tashkent, corresponded with many such as Adelaide and exchanged plants
with many such as Ville de Nice; but no doubt someone will find an exception!

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Jim Mann Taylor
United Kingdom
e-mail: j.mann.taylor@clara.net
Phlomis - the neglected genus
http://www.j.mann.taylor.clara.co.uk/phlomis.html

>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
>
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