Kew Pocketbooks: Wildflowers

A verdantly illustrated gift book for wildflower lovers.

This lush pocketbook from Kew celebrates nature's uncultivated bounty, spotlighting familiar and beloved plants from our meadows, prairies, hedgerows, and woodlands--with even a few from urban settings. Forty paintings of these free-roving gems are gorgeously reproduced from Kew's Library, Art and Archives, one of the most extensive botanical libraries in the world, illustrating wildflowers' delightful variety as well as the diversity of Kew's collection. An introductory chapter by wildflower expert Ed Ikin provides a useful overview, with detailed captions accompanying each painting, making this gift book a perfect keepsake for any wildflower fanatic.

Summary

This stunning series of pocketbooks from Kew offers a snapshot into the diverse and beautiful world of plants. Kew Pocketbooks: Wildflowers lavishly showcases a meadow's worth of familiar plants in 40 botanical paintings.

Product details

• Authors: Ed Ikin, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens
• Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781842467350
• ISBN: 978-1-84246-735-0
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 193 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 301 g
• Series: Kew Pocketbooks
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Garden; Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food