"'A first rate-study of the subject for all serious gardeners... The magnificent colour photographs are better than anything else I have ever seen... Experts of former years would be astounded by the insight that this excellent book offers.' Country Life"

Graham Rice trained at Kew and spent eight years on the staff of Practical Gardening. In recent years he has contributed to all the major gardening magazines and written a number of books including Plants for Problem Places, Garden Flowers from Seed and The Gardener's Guide to Perennials. He lives in Oundle, Peterborough. Elizabeth Strangman has, over the past 20 years, successfully raised and marketed several new strains of hellebore, and has built up an international reputation for the choice plants she supplies from Washfield Nursery in Kent.

Introduction; 1. The Lure and Magic of Hellebores; 2. Ecology and Botany; 3. Cultivation; 4. Plant Associations; 5. Propagation; 6. The Hellebore Species; 7. Hybrids in the Wild and in Gardens; 8. Breeding Hellebores; 9. The Orientalis Hybrids; 10. Case Histories; 11. People and their Plants; 12. The National Collection; 13. Hellebores in America; 14. Hellebores in Australia; Where to see Hellebores; Where to buy Hellebores; Reading about Hellebores; Acknowledgments; Index