Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2015. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Pollination Power is a visually spectacular insight into the hidden secrets of plant pollination, unravelling the deceit, tricks and rewards that plant bestow upon their pollinators. Throughout the book, full page colour photographs are accompanied with extended captions, telling the stories... More about Pollination power
Edinburgh: Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, 2003. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs. This book for rhododendron lovers of all persuasions covers a broad range of topics presented at the Rhododendron Conference in 2002. The Conference, held at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, brought together scientists, horticulturists and rhododendron enthusiasts. The subjects covered... More about Rhododendrons in horticulture and science: papers presented at the International Rhododendron...
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
New York: Prometheus Books, 2006. Small octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The world would be a pretty drab place without flowers. Their bright cheery colours help make our natural environment a more delightful place to be. But flowers in all their beautiful variations didn't evolve just for the viewing pleasure of... More about Flowers: how they changed the world
Portland OR: Timber Press, 2015. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Highly photographic, this book reveals that there is much more to a seed than the plant it will someday become. Seeds, seedheads, pods, and fruits have their own astounding beauty that rivals, and sometimes even surpasses, the beauty of flowers. In... More about Seeing seeds: a journey into the world of seedheads, pods and fruit
Emmaus: Rodale, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations. Scott Chaskey masterfully weaves history, politics, botany, literature, mythology, and memoir into a beautiful, instructive and timely ode to seeds. It's hard to think of a subject more fundamental to the sustenance of the human race than seeds. Having coevolved with... More about Seedtime: on the history, husbandry, politics and promise of seeds
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. This is the second part of the three volume set monograph Peonies of the World, a comprehensive taxonomic revision of the genus Paeonia. Containing over 350 colour photographs, taken from natural sites, covering all 32 species and 26 subspecies, accompanied with... More about Peonies of the world: polymorphism and diversity
Richmond: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2010. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings, maps. The genus Paeonia is a famous group of plants that has been culturally significant in both the East and West for millennia, and is extensively cultivated for both ornamental and medicine purposes. The cultivated tree peony is known... More about Peonies of the world: taxonomy and phytogeography
Kew: Kew Publishing, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, illustrations, maps. Botanical Magazine Monograph series, The Genus Tulipa is the most complete survey of tulip species to date. Each species is illustrated by a botanical painting by artist and author Diana Everett, with accompanying colour photographs of the plants in their... More about The Genus Tulipa: the tulips of the world
Westport: Prospecta Press, 2016. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The remarkable story of the Global Seed Vault and the valiant effort to save the past and the future of agriculture. Closer to the North Pole than to the Arctic Circle, on an island in a remote Norwegian archipelago, lies a vast... More about Seeds on ice: Svalbard and the Global Seed Vault
Lewes: Ivy Press, 2016. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, illustrations, maps. At a time when the world faces increasing pressures from climate change and biodiversity loss, seeds have never been more important. Highly complex, they have evolved in myriad ways to adapt to their environments. In this book we explore... More about Seeds: safeguarding our future
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Quarto, paperback, colour photographs, maps. A first-time paperback edition of this popular title. From the Mojave Desert in the USA to the Italian Dolomites, and from South Africa's Cape National Park to the Stirling Ranges of Australia, this book showcases the most spectacular displays of wild... More about Wildflower wonders: the 50 best wildflower sites in the world
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations. WAS $48. Plants are fundamental to life on Earth, they provide the oxygen we breathe, our food and beverages, spices and herbs, fibres, medicines, fuels, dyes and building materials. To enable botanists to identify plants they have been classified by physical... More about Flowering plants: a concise pictorial guide
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. Hounds-tongue, Ragged robin, Costmary, and Pennyroyal all-heal. These plants, whose very names conjure up a bygone world, were among the great variety of flowers and herbs grown in America's colonial and early Federal gardens. In this sumptuously illustrated book, a.... More about Flowers and herbs of early America
Richmond: Kew Publishing, 2001. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. In a celebration of these wonderful shrubs, Pat Halliday presents the classification of the genus Rhododendron as proposed by the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, using as a medium the beautiful illustrations from Curtis's Botanical Magazine. There are 121 plates representing all the... More about The illustrated Rhododendron: their classification portrayed through the artwork of Curtis's...
Kota Kinabalu: Natural History Publications, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. The forests of Borneo are a hot spot for begonias with almost 200 named species, 134 of which are illustrated here. They grow in the deeply shaded forest understorey from the lowlands to mountain tops and on all rock types... More about A guide to Begonias of Borneo
Portland OR: Timber Press, 2013. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Noel Kingsbury turns his attention to the iconic spring flower, charting its historical and cultural rise. He explores the flower's wide range of heritage varieties and its ongoing cultural significance, visiting people and places connected to the flower. His engaging narrative... More about Daffodil: the remarkable story of the world's most popular spring flower
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 2009. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs. Describes and illustrates over 1,000 species Describes many species very rarely found in cultivation The latest botanical revisions used and newly introduced species described Full glossary of terms Product of 35 years study, enthusiasm and experience Highlights the most... More about Pocket guide to Rhododendron species: based on the descriptions of H.H. Davidian
Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, colour illustrations, line drawings, maps. The latest publication from the "Botanical Magazine" Monograph series, this is a fully illustrated guide to the heather species that grow naturally in the Northern Hemisphere. Covered in detail are the distribution, classification, and conservation of... More about Hardy heathers from the northern hemisphere: Calluna, Daboecia, Erica
London: Harper Collins Publishers, (2016. second edition). Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations, line drawings. Featuring all flowering plants, including trees, grasses and ferns, this fully revised and updated field guide to the wild flowers of Britain and northern Europe is the most complete illustrated, single-volume guide ever published. Leading botanical artists... More about Collins wild flower guide: the most complete guide to the wild flowers of Britain and Ireland
London: Harper Collins Publishers, (2016. second edition). Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations, line drawings. Featuring all flowering plants, including trees and grasses, and ferns, this fully revised and updated field guide to the wild flowers of Britain and northern Europe is the most complete illustrated, single-volume guide ever published. Leading botanical... More about Collins wild flower guide: the most complete guide to the wild flowers of Britain and Ireland
Kota Kinabalu, Natural History Publications, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. Saurauia Willd. (Actinidiaceae) is revised for Borneo, with the first identification key to 85 species (including 62 new species and 3 new varieties) recognised for that island. The account is based on a study of nearly 1500 collections, not including... More about The Genus Saurauia in Borneo