Plant life Reviews
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"An amazing book! Quirky and full on interessting facts and insights. It covers all you could wish to learn on the subject, and can't fail to impress with its inventiveness and creativity."... (read full reviews)
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"Can you identify what tree is outside your front door? If not, then this is the book for you! Full of interesting facts and figures it is the ideal gift for nature lovers!"... (read full reviews)
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"Regarded by many as the definitive guide to wild flowers of Britain and Ireland. This is an essential companion when out enjoying the countryside this spring."... (read full reviews)
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"This is a clear concise guide which offers various useful tools for tree identification. There are also extra sections on various aspects relating to trees and wood. For anyone interested in trees,"... (read full reviews)
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"For anyone interested in the history of floral photography, this book is a must. A superb 24 page introduction called 'The Flower in Photography' by the editor William Ewing starts the journey from"... (read full reviews)
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"This is a comprehensive identification guide for grasses that gives details of their study and how to identify them complete with a number of keys for floristic, vegetative and seed identification as"... (read full reviews)
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"To say this book is amazing would be worrying as its mind bendingly difficult to use at first if you have no experience with plant biology or identification. However, it is amazing. I'd say the best"... (read full reviews)
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"Simply a great book! On my learning curve of tree identification it's been by my side all the way, not leaving my backpack since I bought it. Its a good size and weight, beautiful illustrations, clear"... (read full reviews)
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"A fantastic and comprehensive glossary of plants produced by the experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew. This is an ideal book for garden enthusiasts and botanists. I highly recommend."... (read full reviews)
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"A fabulously presented book which details fascinating information about Wales' oldest trees. I love the beautiful, natural photographs which the book contains and can't help but look through it"... (read full reviews)
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"A real coffee table book, this has beautiful photography throughout, taken right down at plant level so you get unparalelled views. The book is devided into sections based on where you'll find the"... (read full reviews)
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"This is a fascinating read about weeds, where they came from, why we regard them as weeds, what plants are treated as weeds at what times, how we tried to get rid of them, how plants that were weeds"... (read full reviews)
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"I have worked in and around woodland all my life but I have yet to read a book that covers everything about trees in Britain as comprehensively, insightfully and with as much affection as Woodlands."... (read full reviews)
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"With this plant book I have at last found one which contains just about every wild plant one can find in Britain (and no doubt in Ireland, too, but there I cannot judge it for not having tried to"... (read full reviews)
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"This book has everything you want to know on how to spot and cook fungi.Great potos and tips."... (read full reviews)
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"This is a brilliant pocket book and will happily go with you where ever you roam.
The illustrations and descriptions are excellent and leave you in no doubt as to what you are looking at.
I use this"... (read full reviews)
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"A small book that is easy to navigate and has really helped me to find the flowers I am looking for. Equally great for starters and the more experienced."... (read full reviews)
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"This is a brilliant field guide to the ferns, clubmosses, quillworts and horsetails of Britain. I recently went on a fern and horsetail identification course and this was the main text we used and it"... (read full reviews)
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"Deakin's evocative and masterful deception of place and topography is a must for lovers of natural history writing and an absorbing read for those new to the author's eccentric and energetic style."... (read full reviews)
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"Often overlooked, the so-called "primitive" plants have an understated beauty of their own. This comprehensive guide covers all you need to know about their identification and ecology, complemented by"... (read full reviews)