Tropic Beauty Publishers, Nassau, Bahamas, 1994, HC/DC, 270 pages. English version. The ultimate in bromeliad books. An encyclopedic treatment of over 700 different bromeliads, lavishly illustrated with 1,000 color photos, a beautiful 9 x 11 'coffee table' book! Excellent text covers collecting to cultivation and hybridizing.

One used but immaculate copy of this rare English version of one of the most continuously sought books for bromeliad collectors and enthusiasts. Perfect condition with dust jacket, absolutely like new.

Bromeliad Hybrids 'For my own satisfaction' book 1 Neoregelias Large format, paper bound, 210 x 295mm, 100 pages with 426 color photos, © 2010 Bill & Margaret Paterson. This beautiful book is valuable not only for it's beautiful pictures, but also because it documents the prolific hybridizing work of Margaret over more than 30 years. A handy index lists plants by grex, pollen and seed parent, date and contains notes on naming, and other info. A valuable tool for hybridizers and hobbyists alike. You may be surprised to find some of Margaret's hybrids in your collection that you did not know you had! Imported from Australia.

BROMELIADS, Next Generation ©2000 Zaghini 54 pages with 600 color photos. Many genera, very little text, 8 x 12in, paper.

For beginners, enthusiasts, and connoisseurs alike. This book includes descriptions and cultivation information for more than 200 species and cultivars in 28 genera, from Aechmea to Vriesea. Landscaping ideas and advice along with 300 color photographs, will inspire gardeners and collectors. 

Written in 2003 by Andrew Steens.

Informative booklet by Australian nurseryman John Catlan. This self-published 64 page booklet includes photos, gardening advice, and interesting life lessons. 

Many of the succulent genera-Agave, Haworthia, Kalanchoe, & Yucca, for example-include some of the best-known & most often cultivated house plants, & few plants of any kind can compete with Lithops for sheer weirdness. The Preston-Mafhams' book on cacti concentrates on the globular cacti, particularly Mammillaria, but includes some popular columnar forms such as Echinocereus. Paperback. Timber press. 223 pages. Softcover.

By Elaine Davenport. Merchants Publishing Company, Copyright 1977. Glossy booklet,  over 100 color photographs, 80 pages. Culture information including recommendations for light, temperature, humidity, watering, fertilizing, soils and potting, pests and diseases and cultural problems.

THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ORCHIDS, Alec Pridgeon, 1992. A beautiful book. Amateur and pro alike will find this volume infinitely useful. 304 pages, 9  x 12, 1,000 color photos for easy identification and capsule information that is understandable to all.

Hardcover and softcover available.

*Postage (USPS Printed Matter) included in book price. Domestic orders only. 

*Postage (USPS Printed Matter) included in book price. Domestic orders only. 

Mountain Plants Of Venezuela, The Coastal Range, The Andes & Tepuis – BROMELIADS ©2006. This handsome new book by Francisco Oliva-Esteve is richly color-illustrated and printed on high-quality 150 gram, coated paper imported from Finland. Hardcover, 12½ x 9¾ inches, 340 pages with 1290 color photos. 910 photographs of mountain plants from many families, and 300 photographs of bromeliads from throughout the Neotropics, some never before published and many species not found in Oliva-Esteve's previous works. English.

First of a 6-book series of the new world plants, including bromeliads, beginning with an opening chapter "Origins, Geology, Flora and Vegetation of the Mountains of the Tropics”, is followed by text and descriptions of the species accompanied with spectacular habitats of the mountains of southern Venezuela also known as Tepuis, belonging to the Guyana Shield or Lost World. This color illustrated book will be prized by collectors.

Northern Mindanao Bromeliads ©2002 Juanilla Alfonso-Go 400+ beautiful color photos of spectacularly colored bromeliads grown on this Philippine island. 38 pages.