Sarah Raven's Wild Flowers Book

Inspired by childhood excursions with her botanist father Sarah Raven has travelled the length and breadth of the British Isles to find 500 of our most breathtakingly beautiful wild flowers. This lavishly illustrated book is divided by habitat covering woods downs and dales lanes and hedgerows meadows coast marshes and streams moors and mountains and wasteland. Sarah introduces a wide range of plants telling you their names and something about them - how to identify the families how they're brilliantly adapted to their environment their importance to animals and insects what herbal remedies they can be used for the story behind their common names and the part they play in local history. Join Sarah on trips to see pulsatillas fritillaries bluebells wild garlic harebells forget-me-nots foxgloves wood spurge silverweed purple cranesbill deadly nightshade St John's wort comfrey orchids wood sorrel snowdrops and more. There are glorious landscape photographs by Jonathan Buckley throughout and one of his stunning plant portraits accompanies each of Sarah's authoritative captivating species descriptions.Informative and lovely Sarah Raven's Wild Flowers is a botanical marvel.Read More