Mabey, Richard / Gibbons, Bob (photographer) / Jones, Gareth Lovett (photographer).

Flora Britannica: The definitive new guide to wild flowers, plants and trees.

London, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1996. 13 cm x 28 cm. 480 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

Includes for example the following essays: Horsetails / Junipers / Churches and Churchyards / Water-lilies / Mulberries / Nettles / Hedges / Dew-plants / Purslanes / Peonies / Plants, places and names / Mallows / Violets / Mignonettes / Spring festivals / Mock-oranges / Roses / Wild foods / Peas / Mezereons / Dogwoods / Spindles / Hollies / Midwinter greenery / Box / Grape-vines / Flaxes / Borages / Urban commons / Ashes / Broomrapes / Plant medicine / Lords-and-ladies / Meadows / Bulrushes / Scottish vernacular plant names / Index of places etc.

″This landmark guide offers a comprehensive survey of the native and naturalized wild plants of England, Scotland, and Wales. Useful and delightful, it covers 1,000 species, including trees and ferns. More than a definitive work of natural history, however, it is also a virtual encyclopedia of living folklore, recording the role of wild plants in social life, the arts, customs, and landscapes. The information has been supplied by the people themselves, creating a unique national record of the popular culture, domestic uses, and social meanings of Britain’s wild plants. Splendidly written by naturalist Richard Mabey and illustrated with 500 fine color photographs, Flora Britannica is an elegant testimony to the continuing relationship between nature and man.

Richard Mabey is the father figure of modern nature writing in the UK. Since 1972 he has written some 40 influential books, including the prize-winning Nature Cure and Gilbert White: a Biography, and has edited both Birds Britannica and Bugs Britannica. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Vice-President of the Open Spaces Society. He spent the first half of his life amongst the Chiltern beechwoods, and now lives in Norfolk in a house surrounded by ash trees.” (Amazon)

• Keywords: Botany · Britain · Flora · Garden Collection – Ann Geneva · Garden Design – Collection · Garden Design – Rare · Library & Collection Building · Plants · Wildlife
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9781856193771
• Inventory Number: 72412AB