Roses

by Roger Phillips

Every one of 1,400 varieties is illustrated with a color photo and with descriptions of origin, characteristics and growing conditions. Includes a list of U.S. suppliers. (Besides being practical, it's just a pretty book to look at!)

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction, Plants, Reference, Horticulture

224 pages, Paperback

First published March 12, 1988

About the author

In 1975 Roger Phillips began his life’s major work of photographing and publishing pictures of the World’s garden plants. Using modern photographic techniques, Roger set out to develop an encyclopedic collection of books to show the difference between plants as diverse as mosses, roses and annuals. His first book Wild Flowers of Britain was a huge success, selling 400,000 copies in the first year. He has since written 20 additional volumes (often with his co-author Martyn Rix) selling over 4.5million copies worldwide.

Roger has written and presented two major six-part TV series on gardening (BBC & Channel 4). Famed for his ebullient personality and garish red glasses, he has become a well-recognised figure in the world of gardening.

Roger trained at Chelsea School of Art from where he entered a career in advertising culminating in the position of art director at Ogilvy & Mather Advertising. He left O&M to start a career as a freelance photographer, winning many awards before turning his photographic talents to the world of natural history.

Reviews

[Joanna]

This book catalogues over 1400 varieties of roses. With all of those stunningly beautiful photographs, there's not much room for text! There is a brief description of each rose and its family history.

[Lance Mellon]

I have many great rose books, but this is the best there is. Very extensive. His other books are also great. Random House book of Shrubs, Bulbs etc etc..And what a great character he was, too! Died in 2021 :-(

[Nicole]

This is a book to use in helping to identify garden roses or plan for color design using roses. The pictures are very good with true color.

[Sheila Read]

my mom loves reading at this and looking at the picture this book is really good at indefining all the roses.