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Almost 50 years after its original publication, this seminal, million-copy-selling book is published in an updated and extended edition. Wild Flowers of Britain and Ireland is the perfect guide to help anyone interested in the natural world to identify and learn about the wild flowers they see all around them, whether they are walking in urban green settings or the countryside.
Roger Phillips is a world-renowned, award-winning photographer, botanist, plantsman, mycologist and wild food forager. This updated edition of his ground-breaking first book will help you to identify over 1,000 photographed and illustrated wild flowers, month by month, in order of flowering. The book features both new photographs and scanned and retouched pictures taken from the original transparencies
The text of Wild Flowers draws on Roger's extensive expertise, providing details of each plant, including height, habitat, rarity, distribution, flowering period, and background information both medical or historical.
With English, botanical and family names for each plant, and three indexes for ease of navigation, this is a comprehensive and essential photographic guide to the wild flowers of the British Isles.
In 1975 Roger Phillips began his life’s major work of photographing and publishing pictures of the world’s garden plants. He set out to develop an encyclopedic collection of books to show the difference between plants as diverse as mosses, roses and annuals. His first book, Wild Flowers of Britain (1977), was a huge success, selling 400,000 copies in the first year. He has since written over thirty additional volumes (often with his co-author Martyn Rix) selling over 6 million copies worldwide.
Roger has written and presented two major six-part TV series on gardening (BBC & Channel 4). Famed for his ebullient personality and garish red glasses, he has become a well-recognised figure in the world of gardening.
