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.

The Day-Lily

3 pages in this part of Familiar Garden Flowers.

The Day-Lily: Hemerocallis

As garden plants the day-lilies deserve much more attention than they have as yet obtained. Their flowers are showy and fragrant, and there…

The Day-Lily: Achillea

It is time now to restore the common yarrow (Achillea millefolium) to a place in the garden. It has no claim to admiration in respect of…

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