Corokia – My Adventure

Corokia – my adventure is a passionate and colourful account of award-winning gardener and plantswoman Mona Abboud’s personal odyssey on the trail of Corokia. It takes her around the world in a fascinating exploration of the species’ emergence and spread.
The book features definitive practical details of how Corokia can be deployed by garden designers and in private and public gardens and cultivated to wonderful effect. 
Mona’s north London garden, admired by serious plants-people and amateur gardeners alike, is home to the National Collection of Corokia and features a striking array of plants from around the world. 
Her speciality is Mediterranean zone planting and the garden also focuses substantially on Australasian specimen plants, many of which Mona has pruned with distinctive sculptural creativity. The garden’s emphasis is on contrasting texture, shape and foliage colour.

Mona’s garden has featured in BBC and Channel 4 TV programmes and she has written articles for the Royal Horticultural Society’s magazines The Garden and The Plantsman on the subject of Corokia. An enthusiastic amateur gardener, Mona is determined that her new book will demonstrate the benefits, delights and versatility of Corokia.