Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, 2016. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, illustrations. Planting Dreams celebrates the artistry and imagination that have shaped Australian gardens. Internationally renowned garden historian Richard Aitken explores the environmental and social influences that have helped produce our unique gardening culture - from Indigenous land management and the earliest European... More about Planting dreams: shaping Australian gardens

London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. New Naturalist 116. In the past, emphasis has mainly been placed on ways to protect cultivated plants from attack or damage, nowadays our over-reliance on pesticides has been replaced by a far more enlightened approach to plant protection. While... More about Plant pests

St Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden, 1997. reprint). Octavo, dustwrapper, BRAND NEW. Edgar Anderson understood plants' fundamental relationship to man's life on Earth and his writings help us understand it by posing a series of questions. More about Plants, man and life

Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, (2008. second edition). Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. This illustrated guide to North American wild edibles has been a nature classic for over thirty years. In this new edition, David K Foster revises Bradford Angier's invaluable foraging handbook, updating the taxonomy and adding more than a dozen species... More about Field guide to edible wild plants

Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2013. Octavo, paperback, line drawings, maps. Volume 26 of the Flora of Australia series describes three families of plants, Meliaceae, Rutaceae and Zygophyllaceae, consisting of 61 genera and 588 species. Meliaceae is a largely tropical family and includes the well-known Toona ciliata, Red Cedar, as well as... More about Flora of Australia, volume 26: Meliaceae, Rutaceae and Zygophyllaceae

Oxford: John Beaufoy Publishing, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This is an easy-to-use identification guide to 280 species of mushroom and toadstool most commonly found in Britain, Ireland, and other parts of Northern Europe. The user-friendly introduction includes an overview of distribution, habitats, mushroom structure and nomenclature. There is useful... More about Naturalist's guide to the mushrooms and other fungi of Britain and Northern Europe

Peterborough: Redfern Natural History Productions, 2016. Octavo, paperback, limp plastic, colour photographs, line drawings, maps. This fully illustrated guide to the carnivorous plants of Britain and Ireland features over 200 images and documents all recognised native species and their hybrids, as well as the non-native species that have become naturalised... More about Carnivorous plants of Britain and Ireland

Glen Forrest: Off Pen Publishing, 2012. Oblong format, laminated boards, colour photographs. A beautiful photographic book capturing the essence of spring in the south west of Western Australia. More about Wild about the natives: a photographic journey through Australia's south west bushland

Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, (2016. second edition). Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This book provides a comprehensive photographic guide to all plants known to occur in the bushlands of Kings Park and Bold Park. There are 778 species included, both native and introduced representing approximately one quarter of all the... More about Perth plants: a field guide to the bushland and coastal flora of Kings Park and Bold Park

Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications/Royal Botanic Gardens, 2001. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The Plants of Mount Kinabalu provides an inventory of all vascular plants in the flora of Mount Kinabalu. Volume 4 contains historical aspects of plant collecting on Kinabalu, a biographical sketch of two of the most important collectors... More about The plants of Mount Kinabalu, Volume 4: Dicotyledon families Acanthaceae to Lythraceae

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white illustrations. In The emerald planet, David Beerling puts plants centre stage, revealing the crucial role they have played in driving global changes in the environment, in recording hidden facets of Earth's history, and in helping us to predict its... More about The emerald planet: how plants changed earth's history

London: John Wiley and Sons, 2010. Octavo, laminated boards, illustrations. Provides a comprehensive guide to temperate freshwater algae, with additional information on key species in relation to environmental characteristics and implications for aquatic management. The book uniquely combines practical material on techniques and water quality management with basic algal taxonomy... More about Freshwater algae: identification and use as bioindicators

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. A fascinating and wide-ranging look at the natural history of flowers - how they look, what they do, and their often hidden interactions with the surrounding environment and other living organisms upon which they depend for their survival. More about The rose's kiss: a natural history of flowers