It is hard to imagine gardens without peonies, flowering peaches, camellias, gardenias, azaleas, wisteria, forsythia, crabapples, and the host of other ornament

Celebrates the skilled gardeners of Imperial China through new research that opens a new chapter in the story of our garden plants.

The food plants of an area provide the material basis for the survival of its population, and furnish inspiring stimuli for cultural development. There are two

Describes more than 200 gardens in China from temple courtyards, ancient burial grounds, and imperial tombs to public parks, botanical gardens, and arboreta.

A unique addition to the botanical literature, this book presents the flora of China in its astonishing diversity.