中文简介：

娜奥米·斯莱德（Naomi Slade）在本书中提供了关于如何照料和繁殖洋牡丹的建议。Georgianna Lane则通过精美的摄影展示了它们美丽的色彩，从最浅的粉红色到深酒红色，再到白色、橙色、红色和黄色。

洋牡丹是当下***的花卉之一，它们像玫瑰花蕾一样娇嫩，像大丽花一样艳丽。然而，毛茛科植物是一个庞大而多样的家族，并不**于这些异国情调的花商宠儿。有些生长在田野和草坪上，在春天洒满金黄。还有一些罕见的山地花卉，它们栖息在峭壁上，由融化的雪水喂养，另外还有在池塘边缘或快速流淌的溪流中蓬勃生长的品种。

娜奥米·斯莱德从野生起源到成功栽培和流行品种探索了洋牡丹的世界。本书提供了一些提示和建议，帮助读者了解适合自然种植方案的野生牡丹，以及精致的、值得收藏的高山牡丹，还有灿烂的、理想的、非常适合剪裁和布置的洋牡丹。

英文简介：

Ranunculus offers advice on how to care for and propagate these colourful cultivated members of the buttercup family. Naomi Slade explores a wide range of ranunculus species and cultivars, all beautifully photographed by Georgianna Lane in their technicolour glory from palest pink to deep burgundy via white, orange, red and yellow.

Pert as a rosebud and blousy as a dahlia, Ranunculus asiaticus is the flower of the moment. From ancestors that grew wild in the eastern Mediterranean, these Persian buttercups have been bred and selected to create fully double blooms; with layers of delicate, tissue-paper petals sculpted to perfection and available in a range of colours to suit any occasion.

The buttercup family is a huge and diverse one, however, and the genus Ranunculus contains not just these exotic florists’ darlings, but a whole range of their close relatives too. Some are familiar: when fields and lawns are sprinkled with golden meadow buttercups, we can be sure that spring has arrived. Yet there are also rare mountain blooms, perched on crags and fed by the melting snow, and forms that thrive in pond margins or flourish in fast-flowing streams.

Naomi Slade explores the world of buttercups, from their wild origins to their most successfully cultivated and most popular forms. Some are easy to grow, some less so, and this book offers tips and advice to help the reader embrace not just those near-wild forms that lend themselves to naturalistic planting schemes, and the exquisite, collectible alpines, but also the brilliant, desirable, Persian buttercups that are so perfect for cutting and arranging.