Two hundred garden flowers, each with F. Edward Hulme's hand-drawn colour plate and Shirley Hibberd's essay — five series of the best-loved flower book of the Victorian garden, complete.

Blue Nemophila

2 pages in this part of Familiar Garden Flowers.

Blue Nemophila: Horticultural

This plant represents a series of hardy annuals obtained from California in the early days of exploration in the "Far West," by David…

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