Summer Annuals

by Roger Phillips, Martyn Rix

Summer Annuals is designed to give gardeners who enjoy growing plants from seed ideas for choosing and planting a selection of some of the easiest annuals that can be found.  Larkspurs, sweet peas, poppies, pansies and many others will make a colourful border in just a few months.

96 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1998

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

[Rochelley · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has basic info on summer annuals and how to care for them. As a beginning gardner I found the book helpful and am excited to try some of the flowers in the book.