Kew Pocketbooks: Festive Flora

A celebration of the myriad roles plants play in religious, cultural, and national festivities across the globe.

Whether they're used as visual decoration in wreaths, garlands, and religious shrines, or deployed for their rich scents and flavors in festive recipes, plants are integral to a multitude of religious, cultural, and national festivities around the world. Kew Pocketbooks: Festive Flora is a compact snapshot of the enormous variety of botanically enhanced celebrations around the globe. Forty paintings of this merry group selected from Kew's Library and Archives--one of the oldest and most extensive botanical libraries in the world--illustrate the variety of their celebratory uses, as well as the diversity of Kew's collection and the artistic styles housed therein. An introduction by Kew ethnobotanist Mark Nesbitt provides an overview of these plants, and detailed captions accompany each painting, making this a charming keepsake for plant parties throughout the year and across the globe.

About the author

For more than 250 years, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew has fostered the study of plant diversity and economic botany.

Summary

Plants are an integral part of festivities around the world, used in religious, cultural and national celebrations. This Kew Pocketbook is packed full of 40 of these festive plants, from winter favourites such as holly, pines and mistletoe, to colourful beauties including poinsettia and amaryllis.

Product details

• Authors: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Kew The Royal Botanic Gardens
• Publisher: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781842467251
• ISBN: 978-1-84246-725-1
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 188 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Series: Kew Pocketbooks
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Guides > Nature > Garden; Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works