In message , pierrot
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Hi all,
This is my first message on this forum. I am presently teaching myself
horticulture (will go on a proper course later in the year) and wanted
to know where could I purchase posters or charts of
flowers/plants/shrubs identification. The one I saw on the net
addressed mostly kids; posters of wild flowers and not garden grown
plants (and flowers, shrubs, etc).
I'd be also happy to be given addresses of sites that have charts and
'posters' (they'd be smaller than A3 obviously to fit on a computer
screen) to download in PDF format or others.
In advance many thanks
PS: I tend to visit forums for a question then forgot which forum I
asked wich question. Please email me at: .
There's a quarter of million (give or take a lot) species of flowering
plants, and quite possibly a comparable number of cultivars, some
exceedingly divergent from the wild type. You're not going to get a
useful poster of general utility - only ones applying to relatively
small groups of plants.
I like the Philips & Rix books, mentioned elsethread, but the best
portable single volume work for identifying garden plants that I know of
is Michael Wright's "The Complete Handbook of Garden Plants".
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Stewart Robert Hinsley