Take a few chapters from a John le Carre spy thriller, add a hefty dose of exotic travelogue, blend with one of the best books on bulb growing ever written, and you've got "Buried Treasures". For decades, Ruksans has been scouring remote and dangerous regions of Europe and Asia to bring back the bot[...]
In this comprehensive, up-to-date volume, bulb expert Janis RukA'ans surveys all the known species in this remarkable genus, including those that have been discovered since the appearance of Brian Mathew's 1982 monograph. He also discusses their use in the garden, their botanical characteristics, an[...]