Sarah Raven's Wild Flowers

by Raven, Sarah; Buckley, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9781408819593
• ISBN10: 1408819597
• Edition: Limited
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-04-10
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Summary

Inspired by childhood excursions with her botanist father, Sarah Ravenhas travelled the length and breadth of the British Isles to find 500of our most breathtakingly beautiful wild flowers. This lavishly illustrated book is divided by season and then byhabitat, covering fields, gardens, ponds, coasts, woodland andwasteland. Sarah introduces a wide range of plants, telling you theirnames and something about them - how to identify thefamilies, how they're brilliantly adapted to their environment, theirimportance to animals and insects, what herbal remedies they can beused for, the story behind their common names and the part they play inlocal history.Join Sarah on trips to see pulsatillas, fritillaries, bluebells, wildgarlic, 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 Buckleythroughout, and one of his stunning plant portraits accompanies each ofSarah's authoritative, captivating species descriptions. Informativeand lovely, Sarah Raven's Wild Flowers is a botanical marvel.

Author Biography

Sarah Raven is a broadcaster, teacher and writer. She she is the author of  Sarah Raven's Food for Family and Friends, The Cutting Garden, Sarah  Raven’s Garden Cookbook (which was the Guild of Food Writers Cookery Book of the Year 2008) and Sarah Raven's Complete Christmas.

 

 

Jonathan Buckley specialises in garden and plant photography and has been  working with Sarah Raven for ten years. He was awarded the title Garden Writers’ Guild Features  Photographer of the Year in 2004.