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Food you can Forage: Edible Plants to Harvest, Cook and Enjoy
Artist/Author: Francis, Tiffany$35.00 Add to cartWhen you know where to look, each season Nature provides a generous spread of tasty treats ripe for the picking. Foraging can be an adventure for the entire family, and Food You Can Forage is packed with photos, illustrations and useful information to help you identify and find food in the wild, as well as delicious recipes to try with your finds.
In this book, Tiffany Francis explores a range of habitats, revealing why plants grow where they do and which other living things live there too. Tiffany offers tips to help make the most of time spent outdoors wherever you are, and her delightful text also explains everything from the birds to look out for along the coast to which bumblebees you’re most likely to spot on your local heathland.
Whether you prefer to avoid eating overly processed foods or just enjoy spending time outdoors with your family, knowing how to ethically source food for free in the wild is a valuable and fun skill that anyone can learn.
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Gertrude Jekyll: Her Art Restored at Upton Grey
Artist/Author: Wallinger, Rosamund$80.00 Add to cartGertrude Jekyll was perhaps the most important British garden designer of the 20th century. She famously argued that gardening ought to be considered a Fine Art, highlighting that it becomes a point of honour to be always striving for the best. This volume examines Jekyll’s work at Manor House, Upton Grey in Hampshire, offering an insight into her eclectic, imaginative, and inspiring art. Designed between 1908 and 1909, and once maintained by as many as nine gardeners, the garden fell into disrepair by the second half of the twentieth century, before a full and accurate restoration was carried out in the early 1980s. ‘Gertrude Jekyll: Her Art Restored at Upton Grey’ presents a visual record of the garden’s plants and layout, with original plans and photographs, as well as beautiful images of the garden taken since its restoration. There is also a fascinating chapter about Miss Jekyll’s discovery, admiration and use of Mediterranean plants. The book succeeds in illustrating exactly why Jekyll was so admired in her lifetime and why she continues to inspire and influence gardeners today.
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Gardens of England: Treasures of the National Gardens Scheme
Artist/Author: Plumptre. George (Editor)$55.00 Add to cartIn England, gardening and garden-visiting are national obsessions. More than 80 years ago, the National Gardens Scheme (NGS) was founded with the aim of raising money for charity by opening gardens of quality and interest to the public. In the first year, some 600 gardens were opened. Today, over 3700 gardens — many of them privately owned and opened for just a few days each year — are listed in The Yellow Book, the annual guide published by the NGS. The Gardens of England gives you the opportunity to enjoy 50 of the country’s greatest garden gems from the comfort of your armchair. Each of the five chapters is written by a different leading gardens expert, and surveys 10 gardens opened as part of the NGS during a particular period. George Plumptre, an international authority on gardens and head of the NGS, provides an engaging introduction on garden-visiting, and 12 well-known gardeners offer a personal account of their favourite NGS garden. Featuring established and new gardens of all styles, this is a book that no lover of the English garden should be without.
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Collins Fungi Guide: The Most Complete Field Guide to the Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and Ireland
Artist/Author: Buczacki, Stefan, Chris Shields and Denys Ovenden.$35.00 Add to cartThe sixth title in the bestselling Collins Guide series, this book covers the fungi of the British Isles, with considerable relevance for Europe and the wider temperate world. Leading mycological artists have been specially commissioned to ensure accurate, detailed illustrations. Where possible, species are described and illustrated on the same page, with up-to-date authoritative text aiding identification. Nearly 2,400 species are illustrated in full colour, with detailed notes on how to correctly identify them, including details of similar, confusing species. Illustrations of young and mature fruiting bodies are included where necessary, and key features are highlighted for quick and easy reference. Written by one of Europe’s leading mycologists and horticultural scientists, Stefan Buczacki, and illustrated by two of the world’s leading natural history illustrators, Chris Shields and Denys Ovenden, this is the ultimate field guide for mushroom and toadstool lovers.
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Britain’s tree story.
Artist/Author: Hight, Julian.$50.00 Add to cartA lavishly illustrated tribute to Britain’s oldest, largest and most famous trees told through legends, history and literature. Trees have always inspired awe and wonder and some of our ancient trees have been standing for over a thousand years. In this fascinating and lovingly researched book the author selects the most interesting of them and compares archive photographs and engravings with contemporary colour photographs. Some of the trees featured have changed drastically over the centuries, while others seem to have hardly changed at all. Each tree has its own distinct shape and character which it carries through its lifetime. Many of the trees in Britain’s Tree Story are still standing and there is a gazetteer of where to see them, including in various National Trust properties. Britain’s Tree Story is a fascinating and beautifully illustrated celebration of Britain’s trees and the intriguing legends and stories that surround them. Ancient trees are a living link to our past and they often provide a fragile constant in an ever-changing world. This is their story, but in equal measure it is also ours.
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Champion trees of Britain and Ireland: the tree register handbook.
Artist/Author: Johnson, Owen.$45.00 Add to cartThis book introduces the finest examples of every kind of tree growing in the British Isles, from ancient yews and towering sequoias to the rarest of recent introductions. Containing over 200 colour photographs this is the definitive guide to over 5,000 of the grandest trees in Britain and Ireland.
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The vegetative key to the British flora: a new approach to naming British vascular plants based on vegetative characters.
Artist/Author: Poland, J. and E.J. Clement.$70.00 Add to cartConventional field guides only work when you have flowers or fruit – something all botanists find rather frustrating when out in the field. This key is an outstanding innovation. It enables the user to easily identify over 3,000 native and alien plants without flowers or fruit, with nothing more than a hand lens. A diligent enthusiast should be able to correctly identify a plant within three turns of a page, often in under 60 seconds (due to the novel structure of the keys).
Selected flower and fruit characters, particularly ones not readily available in other Floras, have been included, especially in the comparatively few groups where they are essential. The key is an essential identification aid, invaluable to all amateur and professional botanists, ecological consultants, students and naturalists. Because it makes full use of light but good paper, it is remarkably portable considering the completeness of the information it contains.
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Collins British Wild Flower Guide
Artist/Author: Hardcastle, Audrey, Christina Hart-Davies, David Streeter$20.00 Add to cartExperience the joy of discovering the natural world around you with this beautiful pocket guide to British wild flowers, an inspiration and treat designed to enthral all nature lovers.
Leading botanical artists specially commissioned to ensure beautifully detailed illustrations feature the most widely common British wild flowers. Species are described and illustrated on the same page, with up-to-date authoritative text aiding identification. They are arranged by family, with their key features highlighted for quick and easy reference.
This is an indispensable guide for all those with an interest in the countryside, whether amateur or expert.
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Wild flowers of Britain and Europe.
Artist/Author: Spohn, Margot and Roland Spohn.$27.00 Add to cartThis indispensable guide to the Wild Flowers of Britain and Europe is part of the new Black’s Nature Guide series. Over 450 species of wild flower are covered, each beautifully illustrated with detailed paintings and clear photographs. The images not only show you what the plant looks like in its habitat, but also focus in on specific features such as the leaves or flower head, to aid identification. Clear and concise information is provided, such as when the plant is in flower, the approximate petal size and preferred habitat.
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Medicinal plants of Britain and Europe.
Artist/Author: Hensel, Wolfgang.$27.00 Add to cartThis compact guide covers over 350 species of plants, each beautifully illustrated with detailed paintings and clear photographs. The images feature the leaves, flower head or berries to aid identification. Clear and concise information is provided, such as when the plant is in flower,the approximate petal size and preferred habitat. Part of the Black’s Nature Guides series.
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Collins complete guide to British trees: a photographic guide.
Artist/Author: Sterry, Paul.$40.00 Add to cartAn essential guide to every species of tree found in the British Isles outside of arboretums. This easy-to-use guide covers the 360 species of tree that are found in Britain and Ireland. Each species is covered in detail with information on how to identify, whether from a leaf, twig, bark or whole tree, plus extra information on where the tree grows (including a map), how high they grow, what uses the tree is used for and its unique history. Every species is also comprehensively illustrated with photographs of every useful feature – bark, leaf, seed, flower, twig and whole tree.
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Britain’s rare flowers.
Artist/Author: Marren, Peter.$50.00 Add to cartThis is a new paperback edition of an acclaimed and beautiful Poyser title on the rare flowers of Britain. The book looks at the evolution of individual species and of plant communities, the threats (natural and anthropogenic) that have caused declines and extinctions in some plant populations, and the various conservation efforts which have been made to protect them and to encourage their numbers to grow.
