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Plenty of information and excellent color photographs throughout. ... As a gift to an improving gardener, it would be a valuable tool in developing a small garden. -- Kevin Croucher BBC Gardens 20080901 A first step toward choosing trees and shrubs that won't result in future pruning disasters or an overly gloomy garden. -- Valerie Easton Seattle Times 20081012 The scope of the book is broad ... and it is sure to delight the more adventurous gardeners among us. -- Ethel Fried Manchester (CT) Journal Inquirer 20080927 Miller aimed to 'introduce the wealth of trees and shrubs which could be grown in a smaller garden.' She did a commendable job. The book is filled with a wide variety of trees and shrubs - some well known, some rather obscure. -- Tom Torrance Washington Gardener 20081101

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Diana Miller has been a horticultural botanist whose work with the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) spans three decades. From 1979 she was Keeper of RHS Herbarium, where she developed and maintained the world's only herbarium dedicated to cultivated plants. She also served as Secretary for the Hardy Woody Plant Committee of the RHS and was a founding member and Secretary of the Horticultural Taxonomy Group. Over the years she has written, edited, and contributed to a range of horticultural publications, including The Garden magazine and a book on Pelargoniums (Batsford Press, 1996). Diana holds a BA in Botany from the University of Manchester and an MSc in Microbiology from Wellesley College. Recently retired from the RHS, she lives in Hampshire, England.

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