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Zusatztext “My favorite new book this season is Seeing Trees . . . . This book is made for us nearsighted gardeners! who long ago learned the thrill of peering at plants.” — The New York Times “This fascinating celebration of trees will delight gardeners! botanists! students of natural history! and nature photographers.” — Library Journal “The authors have brought the level of observation to new heights.” — The Washington Post “Seek out the Seeing series! and prepare for your breath to be taken away.” — NYBG’s Plant Talk “Vivid! fascinating botanical biographies.” — Reader’s Digest “The resulting images are full of detail.” — Outdoor Photographer Magazine “Beautifully produced and photographed. I highly recommend this book to anyone who would like to know more about this fascinating group of plants! both in the wild or in your backyard.” — Martha Stewart Living “You can't help but be bowled over by the beauty at play in the science.” — Chicago Tribune “A botanical masterpiece.” — Horticulture Magazine “The book to change us all into unabashed tree worshippers.” — Seattle Times “A splendid book.” — Philadelphia Inquirer “You’ll be dazzled.” — The Cleveland Plain Dealer Informationen zum Autor Nancy Ross Hugo writes about natural history! gardening! and floral as garden columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch and education manager of the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden. For more information about Ross Hugo! her lecture schedule! and her current projects! visit nancyrosshugo.com or windowsillarranging.blogspot.com. Robert Llewellyn’s photographs have been featured in major art exhibits! and more than thirty books currently in print. His book! Empires of the Forest: Jamestown and the Beginning of America ! won five national awards in nonfiction and photography! and Washington: The Capital was an official diplomatic gift of the White House and State Department. Klappentext Everyone knows what a tree looks like! right? But have you ever really seen the delicate flowers of a red maple? The emerging leaves of a tulip poplar? The twigs of a beech? When you look at a tree up close! a whole new world of form and detail emerges—you encounter beauty that you never knew existed! and you begin to appreciate trees in a whole new way. Through its delightful writing and dazzling photographs! Seeing Trees invites you to discover the amazing lives of these familiar yet imperfectly understood denizens of our shared environment. Introduction “The acorns are plumping out.” It was late August when my husband, John, made that casual observation, but there was nothing casual about my response to it. I was thrilled, not so much because the acorns were “plumping out,” growing fatter and fatter under their caps, but because it meant John had caught the tree-watching bug, which is contagious. I guess you can’t spend time with someone who pulls the ladder out to inspect tree flowers or festoons them with yarn bows to mark developing fruit without catching some enthusiasm for the subject. In truth, John has always been an enthusiastic tree-watcher, but his sensibilities have grown with mine in the recent years we’ve spent watching trees up close. This kind of tree-watching is different from the kind that takes in trees at a glance, possibly names them, then assigns them to the category of thing to watch, like when they’re leafing out in spring or when they’re changing color in fall. There is always something to watch when you are paying attention to the intimate details that def...
