Elsa Pooley is a botanist whose wide-ranging experience has led her into fields as diverse as research, landscape and garden design, rehabilitation, training, art and publishing. She conducts specialist botanical tours in southern Africa and runs an indigenous landscaping company in KwaZulu-Natal; and she has authored best-selling field guides, including A Field Guide to Wild Flowers of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Region (1998); Mountain Flowers: A Field Guide to the Flora of the Drakensberg and Lesotho (2003); and Forest Plants, in the Forest and in the Garden (2006).
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South African Indigenous Garden Plants: The Gardener’s Guide
R850.00This beautifully illustrated large-format book showcases some 2,400 South African indigenous plants, making it a comprehensive guide to the range of local plants available to gardeners to transform their outdoor spaces.
An Introduction lays the groundwork, covering climate, various garden styles, spatial planning and garden maintenance, as well as giving suggestions for attracting wildlife to the garden.
The encyclopaedic Plant Catalogue forms the bulk of the book. Plants are grouped by growth form into 13 chapters, from bulbs, orchids and aloes through to shrubs, grasses, trees and fynbos. The introduction to each group provides essential information on the selection, planting and feeding of the species, and gives tips on growing and maintaining them in the garden or in containers.
Following each introduction is an extensive catalogue of species, pairing full-colour photographs with brief descriptions that cover size, shape, flowering times and best growing conditions.
The book concludes with a handy Plant Selector, which helps gardeners to choose the most appropriate plants for species areas or functions in their garden or home.
Compiled and edited over several years by an expert team, this easy-to-use reference introduces a host of new and exciting possibilities for gardens and gardeners, both locally and across the globe.
Destined to become a standard reference for gardeners, horticulturists, nurserymen, landscapers and plant lovers.
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First Field Guide: Trees of Southern Africa
R120.00These natural history guides have been developed to encourage young people and anyone with a budding interest in natural history to learn about the wonders of southern Africa’s fascinating fauna and flora. They are an invaluable resource for the beginner, providing information at a glance: each of the species presented is described in easy-to-read text, with a photograph and distribution map. A short introduction gives context to the topic.
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Eerste veldgids: Bome van Suider-Afrika
R120.00Sasol Eerste Veldgids tot Bome van Suider-Afrika bied ’n fassinerende blik op die bome van die subkontinent.
Met behulp van volkleurfoto’s en verspreidingskaarte, asook maklik leesbare teks, sal die beginner en ontluikende natuurliefhebber die meer algemene bome in Suider-Afrika kan identifiseer, kan vasstel waar hulle groei, en meer te wete kom oor hul unieke eienskappe.
