Perennial Garden Plants by Graham Stuart Thomas

Today's book recommendation: Perennial Garden Plants by Graham Stuart Thomas 

Hailed as a classic from its first publication, Perennial Garden Plants describes over 2,000 species along with practical information on planting, seasonal flowering, color, propagation and cultivation as well as on the origins of plants.

Of this book Graham Stuart Thomas said, 

"I have tried to be truthful, concise and at the same time appetizing; Appetizing because it is my desire to encourage you to grow these lovely things; the smaller ones among them maybe called garden toys, while many of the larger kinds are plants of great personality.  To whichever class they belong they are growing things, of a beauty unsurpassed among the passive things of this world and worthy of our reverence and awe,  to be treasured and enshrined in our gardens."