Viewing post #705722 by MotherRaphaela

Yes! Do you have a title and publisher yet so we can keep our eyes peeled? (I know the process of finally getting a book out can get interesting at times...)

And , I will look forward to your book on sempervivums even more enthusiastically! I like iris, but for whatever reason they have never captured me the way semps have...

And is there a place on ATP for book reviews? Since your writing about publishing reminded me, I'd also like to give another plug to Andrea Wulf's two books --now out in paperback -- on how European and American cultivars were brought to trade --mostly in the 18th century, thanks to a circle of impassioned plantsmen: "The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire, and the Birth of an Obsession," Vintage Books (Knopf) 2010 and "Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature and the Shaping of the American Nation," Vintage Books (Knopf) 2012. Even the New York Times thought them "Illuminating and engrossing!" Even though they are pretty much all about plants! For anyone even slightly interested in plants and history, once you start, they are hard to put down. MR