Sarah Raven's Wild Flowers - Softcover

Raven, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1526609541 ISBN 13: 9781526609540

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

In a new, practical format - the stunning book celebrating British wild flowers by award-winning garden writer Sarah Raven.

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. Discover 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.

About this title

Review:

An epic and beautiful volume, which I will be poring over with my children, and pressing many flowers between its pages (Robert Macfarlane)

Impressive, beautiful to look at and truly a labour of love (Sunday Times)

Dazzling (Scotsman)

William Blake found 'heaven in a wild flower' and so, too, has writer Sarah Raven in this epic treatise (Living)

Book Description:

In a new, practical format - the stunning book celebrating British wild flowers by award-winning garden writer Sarah Raven

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1526609541
• ISBN 13: 9781526609540
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512