Decluttering my late grandmother's library to help afford my medical care for MCS. 🙏 This 1989 revision would make a wonderful gift for the nature lover in your life! Summary: “AUSTRALIA has a wealth of beautiful and striking shrubs. Very different from the soft-leaved plants of Northern Hemisphere origin that are so familiar in our gardens, many of the natives are hard-leaved heath-dwellers, and some of them are as notable for their intricate or bizarre foliage as for their flowers. Anyone who has visited the heathlands of the south west of Western Australia will have been dazzled by the riotous colours of the spring flowers there, and equally impressed by the range and variety of the shrubs that contribute to this display: delicate feather flowers (Verticordia). majestic banksias, showy melaleucas, intricate isopogons and the famous Blue Lechenaultia. All these are represented in Ivan Holliday and Geoffrey Watton's Field Guide to Australian Native Shrubs, as well as many other colourful and interesting shrubs from every State and from habitats ranging from rainforest to the inland deserts. Particular emphasis has been placed on the more eye-catching species. Many of these have attracted the attention of gardeners, and if you have a native garden you will find useful horticultural notes on each species. Altogether some 64 genera and more than 200 species are represented. Richly illustrated with colour photographs and supplementary drawings to aid in identification, this book is written for the lay person, and botanical terminology is clearly explained in a very comprehensive glossary. This is a book that will appeal to amateur naturalists, visitors to Australia touring the countryside, gardeners, and anyone interested in the natural heritage of Australia.” #nature#Australia#botany#plants#flowers#shrubs#encyclopedias#vintage#80s#hardcover