High quality photographs from India's top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, which include nomenclature, identifying features, and habitats. The user-friendly introduction covers geography and climate, flower habitats, and flower identification.

This easy-to-use identification guide to the 280 tree and shrub species most commonly seen in India is perfect for resident and visitor alike. High quality photographs from India's top nature photographers are accompanied by detailed species descriptions, which include nomenclature, size, distribution and habitat. The user-friendly introduction covers geography and climate, vegetation, opportunities for naturalists and the main sites for viewing the listed species. Also included is an all-important checklist of all of the trees and shrubs of India encompassing, for each species, its common and scientific name, its status in each state as well as its global IUCN status.

Gardening, today, is getting relegated more to become one' s hobby than a thing of passion. A nicely designed garden speaks volumes of the creativity and taste of the person maintaining it. Indian Garden Flowers is a comprehensive guide for an amateur gardener. The Subject matter is concise, time-saving and can be read at convenience without going into commercial and technical details. It includes in brief the following: Conception and planning of a garden Identification of most commonly grown flowers with beautifully laid-out illustrations Cultivation details and after-care of flowers based on practical experience Embellishing indoors using garden flowers in fresh and dry floral design arrangements A monthly garden reckoner and much more . . .

Common Indian Wild Flowers is a superbly illustrated field guide to the indigenous flora of the Indian plains and peninsula. The book contians 240 photographs of common Indian wild flowers with explanatory notes on the size, habit, habitat, distribution and other interesting features. The species have been arranged in taxonomic sequence, and common names in English and regional names have also been given. There are separate sections on the topography, climate and vegetation of India, on how to identify and photograph wild flowers and on conservation issues related to them. The book will be useful to naturalists, both amateur and professional. English common names and regional names are indexed to enable the reader to identify the species in its typical wild habitat. Scientific names have also been indexed. A bibliography and a glossary completes this field guide to wild flowers.