A Photographic Guide to Wildflowers of New Zealand
by Geoff and Liz Brunsden, 144pp limpbound, New Holland, Auckland 2004, RRP$24.99. Designed for the inside pocket of a jacket, this guide by two keen gardeners illustrates 125 of the more colourful species we mostly know as weeds. There are good notes about the habits of each. The Brunsdens are given some credit for introducing wildflower gardens along some highways. Their book is similarly biassed, toward what the rest of us might call ‘garden
escapes. So we have cosmos and sweet william, fresh from the cottage garden, laying alongside such natives as Maori onion and mountain daisy. This is a pretty little book laid out by colour of flower rather than genus. It is a frightening reminder to the purist of what’s out there and what can escape into the wild.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 314, 1 November 2004, Page 46
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