a masterpiece of clarity and conciseness, homing in on diagnostic floral and vegetative detail gleaned from years out in the field. Lee Schofield * This bicycle Odyssey of Britain and Ireland's wild flora is joyous, inspirational and beautifully observed. Originally from Zimbabwe, Micaela has always enjoyed learning about different cultures and exploring the great outdoors.

If you’re new to the wildflower identification scene, check out our beginner’s guide to native British wildflowers. En route we travel along the shore, before crossing saltmarshes and dunes to explore the burns, marshes and lochs. Second, it's fairly big - about A4 size - so you can't really just slip it in your pocket when you go out.Featuring 40 of the most beautiful flowers from around the world, including the common wildflowers we know and love, as well as the rare and interesting.

Wildflowers is a celebration of the natural bounty around us, offering a meadow’s worth of familiar plants including foxgloves, poppies, dandelion, ivy, daisy, bluebells and orchids, and many more.

It covers 20 of the most common species, taking you from basic info to full ID by diagrams and flowcharts. Facebook sets this cookie to show relevant advertisements by tracking user behaviour across the web, on sites with Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. Britain's meadows are at their most beautiful in spring and summer when they brim with wildflowers, pollinating insects and birdlife. As a lace maker and author these designs are very useful as inspiration for lace patterns for my teaching and in my books. Many wildflower guides are organised according to plant families, but this book uses a simpler and easier approach: in the catalogue section, flowers are arranged by colour and then by size, helping you to easily home in on the particular flower that you want to identify.

Google Universal Analytics sets this cookie to restrain request rate and thus limit data collection on high-traffic sites. Country Life Magazine * 'Tales of seeking, and often finding, notable plants are intertwined with fascinating detail and history of the places they are found.Along the way, Leif highlights the joy and positivity that can be found through understanding nature and why it is so desperately important to protect our wildflowers. A big name in the world of gardening, it’s no surprise Sarah Raven has an impressive understanding of wildflowers from harebells and forget-me-nots to foxgloves and wood spurge. The Little Book of Wild Flowers is produced in association with the conservation charity Plantlife with a foreword by well-known botanist, Dr Trevor Dines. Just thumb through all the pages of pictures until you find one that matches your flower, This (a) will take an awfully long time and (b) is not very likely to find you the right answer anyway. Original author Dr Francis Rose, MBE Dr Rose is one of our best-known botanists, with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the lichen and bryophyte flora as well as of flowering plants, and of plant ecology and biogeography.