Flowers

In this book, Sharon Amos explains how to design and create a beautiful garden for little or no money, offering tips on bartering for clippings, getting a bargain at garage sales or neighbourhood fairs, digging up suckers or adapting wild species and...

'Garden Book of the Year' - Garden Media Guild Awards 2022 Discover Britain's most beautiful and inspiring wild gardens, and how you can make your own. Winner 'Best Garden Book of the Year'...

Ranunculus offers advice on how to care for and propagate these colourful cultivated members of the buttercup family. Naomi Slade explores a wide range of ranunculus species and cultivars, all beautifully photographed by Georgianna Lane in their...

This delightful celebration of the dahlia reads like a "very smart love letter to cultivating beauty" and features 60+ vintage-inspired full-color botanical illustrations (Seattle Times)."Next time you are lucky enough to be someone's houseguest,...

The lily is an emotive flower, with cultural connotations of romance, remembrance, love and innocence. It is little wonder that the lily can be found in literature, art and heraldry across Asia, Europe and North America; where they have...

A beautiful, richly illustrated book on Europe's wild orchids - perhaps the most enigmatic and popular group in the botanical world. The orchid family (Orchidaceae), numbering some 25,000 species, is one of the...

A perennial favourite among flower-buyers, Tulips is next in the strand of Pavilion's successful and stylish floral gardening companions. Spectacular photography, inspirational commentary and no-fuss gardening tips show you that anyone can grow and enjoy...

This book looks at the Bach Flower remedies, which are homeopathic treatments for mood and health. This guide helps readers choose and administer the right remedy for their symptoms.An essential guide to Dr Bach's world-famous natural remediesBook...

Taking sixty of the world's most amazing flowers and flowering plants, including the corpse flower from Indonesia, the bat-face cuphea and the chocolate cosmos flower from Mexico, the Pohutukawa tree from New Zealand, the lipstick tree and the giant...

This pocket guide allows the identification of all species of orchid in the British Isles. The orchid family is one of the largest plant families in the world, reaching its highest diversity in the tropics where their exotic and colourful flowers are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913733957Author Alec WhiteFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Bird Eye BooksPublisher Graffeg Limited

'This is a clearly presented work, with accessible topic headings and plenty of good advice sprinkled with engaging personal anecdotes. The message at the book's heart is to adopt a greener way of being and to see oneself as part of nature, not removed...

'Packed with beautiful images, recipes, remedies, meditations, fascinating ideas'. The Telegraph A beautiful, illustrated modern guide to nature for a new generation (including city-dwellers) and how it can impact our...

The genus Gladiolus has fascinated plant collectors, taxonomists and the general public for centuries. Known for their spectacular flowers, these highly adapted and specialised plants occur throughout Africa, Madagascar, Europe and the Middle East. South...

Winner of the National Trust Outdoor Book of the Year 2011The story of one man's unlikely quest to create out of a mountainous Welsh landscape a garden fit for inclusion in the prestigious Yellow Book - the 'Gardens of England and Wales Open for Charity'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486841762Author Jessica MazurkiewiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

For centuries, botanists have been drawn to the rarest species, sometimes with dire consequences for the species' survival. In this book, Great Britain's rarest flowering plants are discussed in turn, including the stories behind their discovery, the...

The beauty of flowers is well known, inspiring creative minds from Botticelli to Beatrix Potter. But they've also played a key part in forming the past, and may shape our future.Roses and thistles have served as symbols of monarchs, dynasties and nations...

Explore the colourful world of alpine flowers. This practical book will help you make a quick, reliable identification of each plant, with concise descriptions and illustrations for individual plants to enable differentiation from similar species...

From deterring insect pests with hot peppers to encouraging strawberries by bordering them with chrysanthemums, Louise Riotte shows you how to use the natural qualities of common plants to increase your garden's productivity. Roses Love Garlic profiles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910723968Author Doug KennedyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Merlin Unwin BooksPublisher Merlin Unwin BooksWeight(grams) 1004g

From Peter Wohlleben, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees, and his wife, Miriam, comes an inspired, practical memoir of creating a sustainable homestead amongst the trees.Called "a veritable tree whisperer" by the Wall...

This pocket field guide to identifying 230 common Alpine flowers is packed with all the information you need to recognise your favourites while out in the mountains. Designed for the non-specialist, this little handbook is arranged by colour and also...

Flowers can talk. Red roses say 'I love you', white lilies offer condolence and poppies invite us to remember.For thousands of years, humans have used flowers as a language, a short-hand for emotions and meanings. In her new book, Sally Coulthard, takes...

A richly illustrated guide to the wildflowers and other flora of coastal Britain, Ireland and Northwest EuropeThe rugged and beautiful coastal regions of Britain and Ireland are among the crowning glories of these islands. Few visitors can fail to marvel...

Happily for us, these days they are affordable luxuries - and easy to grow as well. This charming little hardcover book includes 40 full-colour botanical illustrations, basic botany and history, everything you need to know to grow gorgeous blooms in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782142140Author Michael LavelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Hermes HousePublisher Anness Publishing

This charming celebration of the peony reads like a "very smart love letter to cultivating beauty" and features 60+ vintage-inspired full-color botanical illustrations (Seattle Times)."Delightful...Next time you are lucky enough to be someone's...

I have learned many words for 'island': isle, atoll, eyot, islet, or skerry. They exist in archipelagos or alone, and always, by definition, I have understood them by their relation to water. But the Chinese word for island knows nothing of water. For a...

Become a plant parent to some of the most stunning flowering plants you've ever seen Orchids display more beautiful and exotic flowers than you'll find on other flowering plants, but they do require some love and care to grow well. With help from...

A revised and updated edition of the internationally bestselling classic Anna Pavord's now classic, internationally bestselling sensation, The Tulip, is not a gardening book. It is the story of a flower that has driven men mad. Greed, desire, anguish...

A guide to 32 of the best and most common edible wild plants in North America, with detailed information on how to identify them, where they are found, how and when they are harvested, which parts are used, how they are prepared, as well as their...

'Remarkable' Robert Macfarlane'Gorgeous' Amy Liptrot'Urgent and nourishing' Jessica J. LeeNina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo - where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There, the local swimming pool became...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914934230Author Margaret Anne AdamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Northern Bee BooksPublisher Northern Bee BooksWeight(grams) 844gDimensions(mm)...

'A remarkable book' Robert Macfarlane'A distinctive new voice: attentive and tender' Amy Liptrot'Elegant, understated, urgent and nourishing' Jessica J. LeeHome is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans.Nina Mingya Powles first...

'A meticulously researched, important and beautiful volume that goes well beyond the scope of its title to describe the hitherto neglected subject of woodland flora and place it in a broad ecological and historical context.' - Stehan Buczacki ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262551021Author Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Flower fans and nature enthusiasts will fall in love with this charming art book from Instagram sensation Flora Forager featuring the best of her unique floral compositions created with botanical materials. Flora Forager creates images out of flower...

This new fourth edition has been completely revised and updated, covering all aspects in the field of plant sciences including biochemistry, plant physiology, cytology, ecology, genetics, evolution, biogeography, earth history, and earth sciences. ...

"The best recent all-around lavender book with something for gardeners, crafters, and cooks alike." -Library Journal Lavender is beloved for its and culinary and medicinal uses. In The Lavender Lover's Handbook, Sarah Berringer Bader provides a complete...