Perfect Plants

by Roger Phillips, Martyn Rix

This guide provides a selection of 1500 of the best, easiest to grow and most readily available garden plants, including trees, shrubs, roses, perennials, bulbs and annuals. Each chapter contains photographs of the plants wither in their habitat or laid out for easy indentification. The book is organized for easy reference, into for example, trees by size, and roses divided into modern, old, miniatures and climbing and arranged by colour and perennials, bulbs and shrubs by flowering time. There is also information on how and where to grow each plant.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction, Horticulture

320 pages, Paperback

First published May 10, 1996

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.