Collins Flower Guide

Collins Flower Guide
Author: David Streeter
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 610
Release: 2010-01-07
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 0007183887

Featuring all flowering plants, including trees, grasses, and ferns, this brand-new field guide to the flowers of Britain and northern Europe is the most complete illustrated, single-volume guide ever published. Leading botanical artists have been specially commissioned to ensure accurate, detailed illustrations. Species are described and illustrated on the same page, with up-to-date authoritative text aiding identification. Plants are arranged by family, with their key features highlighted for quick and easy reference. The text offers a complete account of more than 1,900 wild flowers of Britain and Ireland, along with a summary of their European distribution.Collins Flower Guideis an indispensable guide for all those with an interest in the countryside, whether amateur or expert.

Wild Flowers of Britain & Ireland

Wild Flowers of Britain & Ireland
Author: Marjorie Blamey
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Wild flowers
ISBN: 9780713659443

The first ever fully-illustrated, fully-mapped guide to the British and Irish flora. Its restriction to the British Isles alone allows far more detail and more local information, and identification which is made easier with the inclusion of extensive maps. Includes specific details about plants appearing in certain areas and coloured maps designed to make location and identification easy, this book also includes details of local specialities for the Isles of Scilly. Also featured is an illustrated survey of recently disappeared British and Irish plants, some of which may return. With over 2000 detailed colour paintings and more than 800 maps, this is the most extensively illustrated wild flower guide to Britain and Ireland yet. Coloured, boxed keys to plants in complex or difficult groups are provided to assist ID. The Wild Flowers of Britain and Ireland features information about grasses, which are often omitted in other, shorter books, along with sedges, rushes, horsetails and clubmosses. Ferns, though not strictly speaking flowering plants, are also included too.

Collins Guide to Tropical Plants

Collins Guide to Tropical Plants
Author: Wilhelm Lötschert
Publisher: Harpercollins Pub Limited
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1983
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780002191128

A description of ornamental and economic plants that are becoming more familiar to the current population

Flowers

Flowers
Author: Gail Saunders-Smith
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2004-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780736848640

Simple text and photographs depict the parts of flowers and their pollination.

Mediterranean Wild Flowers

Mediterranean Wild Flowers
Author: Marjorie Blamey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Botany
ISBN: 9780007106226

Available for the first time in paperback, this book describes and illustrates all the wild flowers of the Mediterranean islands and all coastal regions from sea-level up to 1000 metres – from Portugal and Spain eastwards to the Lebanon and back to Morocco.

Dahlias

Dahlias
Author: Philip Damp
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1995
Genre: Dahlias
ISBN: 9781852238896

With a wide variety of colour, sizes and forms, dahlias are suitable for beds and borders, as well as in floral arrangements. This book has tips on all aspects of growing and showing with a listing of over 150 recommended varieties. It also includes history, a month-by-month planner, gardens to visit and full glossary/indexes.

The Wild Flower Key

The Wild Flower Key
Author: Francis Rose
Publisher: Frederick Warne Publishers
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2006
Genre: Shrubs
ISBN: 9780723251750

This wild flower identification guide was first published in 1981 and is still widely accepted as the best of its kind for its combination of meticulous illustrations and the use of keys to aid recognition. For this new edition the Latin names have been revised in accordance with the current classification system. It is now published as the ideal book for the serious student of British and north-west European wild plants, providing a bridge between picture identification guides and the non-illustrated academic floras.