书名：Plantsman’s Paradise

作者：Roy Lancaster

ISBN：9781851495153

出版社：ACC Art Books 

出版日期：2008.4.1

尺寸：24.64 x 4.57 x 31.06 cm

装帧：精装

页码：512

图幅数：800彩色，70黑白

作者简介：

Roy Lancaster作为一名种植园工有着漫长而杰出的职业生涯，并以他的写作、演讲、电视工作以及作为第 4 台“园丁”提问时间的定期小组成员而闻名于世。

内容简介：

《中国游记》为西方园丁提供了对植物的观赏价值或植物学兴趣的实用评估。罗伊·兰开斯特（Roy Lancaster）描述了自然栖息地中约1，000种不同的植物，并提供了一个非常可读的叙述，讲述了一个迷人的国家，它的人民，以及丰富了欧洲和北美花园的植物。数百张兰开斯特自己迷人而丰富多彩的照片被复制，穿插着他旅行中引人入胜的描述和轶事。这是一本关于植物的书，来自一个品种如此丰富的国家，中国一座山上的物种比整个不列颠群岛多50%还多。

This book successfully combines a most enjoyable and detailed account of the well-known author's many journeys through China. First and foremost, Travels in China provides a practical assessment of the plants that are either of ornamental merit or botanical interest to gardeners in the West. Roy Lancaster describes some 1,000 different plants in their natural habitat and provides an eminently readable account of a fascinating country, its people, and the plants that have enriched the gardens of Europe and North America. Hundreds of Lancaster's own attractive and colourful photographs are reproduced, interspersed with fascinating descriptions and anecdotes from his travels. This is a book about plants from a country so rich in variety that there are 50% more species on one mountain in China than there are in the whole of the British Isles. Indeed, the wide range of climatic conditions in a country as vast as China makes this book relevant to all gardeners, be they from Norway or Spain, the United