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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Dural: Rosenberg Publishing, (2012. second edition). Octavo, paperback, photographs and illustrations. Explores the important role wattle has played in the nations history and continues to play in bringing us together in good times and bad as a symbol of our being Australian. This is a revised edition of Wattle (AGPS..... More
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
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
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
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