Second Edition. Hard cover
By Alex George, Kevin Collins, Kathy Collins
Published: 1st June 2020
ISBN: 9780992290030
Number Of Pages: 384
Cost: $55 + $12 p&h. Click here to get your copy and pay online. Or send an email to office@austplants.com.au.
Normal retail price: $69.95, you save $14.95.
Banksias are Australia’s most iconic plants after the Eucalypts, known for thousands of years to indigenous Australians and, through writing and art, to many more who have never visited this land.
This extensively revised edition of the first edition, The Banksia Book by Alex George, includes the most recently discovered Banksia, vincentia, with descriptions and illustrations of all 79 known species with many new photographs and updated species descriptions. It provides the history of their discovery, evolution, how to find and grow them and how they have inspired artists and artisans. With some 400 beautiful colour illustrations it is the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide to these unique and fascinating plants. Tables list which Banksias to grow for particular purposes and the three authors have between them, studied and grown all 79 species of Banksia, their combined experience totalling over a hundred years.