Garden Succulents

This revised and expanded Garden Succulents includes: * Descriptions of more than 400 well-known succulent plants and their close relatives. * Details about the main succulent plant groups that will allow any reader to quickly determine at a glance to which family a succulent belongs. * More than 600 excellent full-colour photographs, showing the distinctive shapes, sizes, and colour of the plants. * Introductory chapters on waterwise gardening, uses, conservation, cultivation and propagation of succulents, together with a section on gardening with succulents, which gives useful hints. * The main section deals with all major succulent plant assemblages, how they can be identified and which main groups (genera and species) belong to each of them. Having authored or co-authored over 50 books, and more than 1 000 scientific and popular papers, Gideon F. Smith is South Africa’s most prolific author on succulents of the Old and New Worlds. He is an Honorary Professor at the Nelson Mandela University, and a research associate at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. Ben-Erik van Wyk is a professor of Botany at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and currently holds a National Research Chair in Indigenous Plant Use. His research in plant systematics has broadened to include ethnobotany and the traditional and contemporary uses of plants. He is the author or co-author of more than 300 scientific publications and is known for his local and international full-colour books on medicinal, edible, and other useful plants. EXTENT: 256 pages FORMAT: 240 x 168 mm HBK, full colour throughout over 600 photographs