The essential quick reference to the wildflowers of one of America's most beloved national parksThe intriguing world of wildflower identification can greatly enhance your enjoyment of the park.
Dazzling, passionate nature writing a celebration of Britain's woods and forests and a rousing call to fight for them A Guardian Best Nature Book of the Year 'I loved it.
The 100th volume of the prestigious New Naturalist series, written by one of Britain's best-known naturalists, explores the significance and history of woodlands on the British landscape'Trees are wildlife just as deer or primroses are wildlife.
Reveals how we can learn from the intelligent communities of trees and plants*; Shares breakthrough research on how tree and plant communities function, revealing a holistic, interconnected, communal, and sentient new world *; Examines the attributes we share with trees and plants and how the behaviors of altruism, cooperation, and community are genetically coded in our beings *; Looks at how to learn to see, think, imagine, and live with holistic eco-centric awareness and the benefits that come from working with our plant allies Breakthrough research is not only revealing a brilliant green world with amazing attributes like dispersed intelligence but also that humanity, like the tree and plant kingdom, thrives on innate cooperation, sharing, altruism, and community.
Lichens are fascinating and beautiful organisms able to colonise a vast range of habitats, including seemingly impossible places such as bare icy mountain tops and sun-scorched coastal rocks.
A colourful, illustrated celebration of wild plants around the world, and why we should love them not loathe them, with 50 graphic illustrations by Paul Farrell.
A heady celebration of the beauty and history of the wild orchid species of the British Isles, embraced in one glorious and kaleidoscopic summer-long hunt by naturalist Jon DunnFrom the chalk downs of the south coast of England to the heathery moorland of the Shetland Isles, and from the holy island of Lindisfarne in the east to the Atlantic frontier of western Ireland, Orchid Summer is a journey into Britain and Ireland's most beautiful corners.
"e;INFORMATIVE AND ORIGINAL"e; Guardian, 'This month's best paperbacks' We've become used to thinking of plants as things for us to use: as food, tools, resources, or just as an attractive background to our own lives.
Craft delicious wild cocktails from foraged and grown ingredientsThe art of foraged, or 'wild', cocktails is a growing phenomenon all over the world - from the pop-up bars of London to the farmers' markets and speakeasies of New York City.
'The most effective advertisement for the countryside I've ever encountered' Daily MailWalking Through Spring follows Graham Hoyland's journey as he traces a new national trail, walking north with Spring from the South Coast to the Borders.
Sunday Times Bestseller'A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement' Charles FosterWaterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September)Are trees social beings?
Short-listed for the 2012 Speaker's Book Award Edmund Zavitz (1875-1968) rescued Ontario from the ravages of increasingly more powerful floods, erosion, and deadly fires.
Nicht nur auf Feld und Wiesen finden sich die erstaunlichsten Pflanzen – auch vor unserer Haustür, auf dem Grünstreifen neben der Ampel oder im kleinen Park um die Ecke gedeihen die faszinierendsten Gewächse.
Das neue BdS-Handbuch IIIb porträtiert erstmals in einem eigenen Werk die bisher im Handbuch Stauden geführten Farne und Gräser und Sumpf- und Wasserpflanzen.
Las plantas no sólo engalanan tu casa y te ayudan a respirar un aire más limpio: está comprobado que tenerlas reduce tu nivel de estrés, mejora tu estado de ánimo y te da la enorme alegría y satisfacción de cuidar a otro ser vivo.
Jenseits vom Blumenbeet: Ochsenzunge, Hungerblümchen und WanzensamenAufregend ist der botanische Dschungel Deutschland: Gleich vor der Haustür, am Wegesrand oder hinter der Autobahnleitplanke warten spannende Gewächse darauf, entdeckt zu werden.
- De las plantas aromáticas culinarias se pueden utilizar las semillas, las flores o las hojas; se pueden cocinar y consumir como tales, o bien emplearse para infusionar en un plato o bebida.
Pocket Guide Fynbos features over 300 of the most spectacular and commonly seen species from South Africa's renowned fl oral kingdom - all in one handy, easy-to-use guide.