This is an excellent reference book for both the casual flower watcher or botanist. The plants and flowers are illustrated with color photos helping to ease confusion between species. The one problem is that the photos do not appear next to the text which leads to extra page flipping. An index would also be useful. This is a well researched, useful and attractive book.

The book falls short speciallly because of the foreword by Syd Field. The author just kept repeating the the same imformation throughout the whole book. On each chapter he tells about the different ideas he came up with, but there is a lack of information on how to get started, and resources that could guide you even further. There isn't even a bibliography of websites and other books. Beyond the idea, you won't know where to go, or how to make it roll. I think that these days a book should include resources specially from the internet since we are living in a digital era.