Trees, wildflowers & plants
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Arboretum
£25.00Arboretum
Trees are some of nature’s most majestic and beguiling life forms. ‘Arboretum’ is a beautifully illustrated celebration of trees from around the world, and sheds light on the vital role they play in every part of human life.
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Belonging
£10.99Belonging
Reflecting on family, identity and nature, ‘Belonging’ is a personal memoir about what it is to have and make a home. It is a love letter to nature, especially the northern landscapes of Scotland and the Scots pinewoods of Abernethy – home to standing dead trees known as snags, which support the overall health of the forest.
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British Wild Flowers
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Elderflora
£20.00Elderflora
Historian Jared Farmer tells the globe-spanning story of humanity’s deep fascination with the oldest living trees, the lessons in survival they offer us, and how to alter our behaviour so that the young trees of today can become ancient themselves.
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Fifty Things to Do With a Stick
£12.99Fifty Things to Do With a Stick
A must-read for anyone with an adventurous spirit, a yen to whittle and chop, and a desire to get out into nature and play with sticks! These 50 achievable ideas for making and playing with sticks – all with beautiful step-by-step illustrations – make a great gift.
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How the rose got its thorns
£22.00How the rose got its thorns
Have you ever wondered why the rose has thorns and other flowers don’t; why the daffodil is the colour it is; or why some plants have shiny leaves and others matt? ‘How The Rose Got its Thorns’ reveals the inner workings of our favourite flowers and trees. Designed to help gardeners, both novice and experienced, better understand how plants grow, the book is easy to navigate – it is divided into 50 chapters, each one a story.
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Kew – witch’s forest
£14.99Kew – witch’s forest
An illustrated journey through the magical woodland and its stories, from birch broomsticks and the sacred olive, to alder doorways and the Tree of Life.
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Outside in
£30.00Outside in
In his debut book, garden designer Sean A Pritchard shows you how to plan a garden so that every month of the year there’s something to bring indoors and display in an engaging way. From the cheery joy of early spring daffodils to the velvety richness of late-summer dahlias, the deep glow of golden autumn leaves to the optimism of late-winter catkins, Sean explains how to grow, harvest, and arrange an abundance of nature’s treasure – no matter the size of your plot or your level of horticultural experience.
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Planting wildflowers
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The Herbal Year
£18.99The Herbal Year
An enchanting, beautifully illustrated guide to seasonal plants-showing the long history of herbal remedies and their uses today
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The Man Who Planted Trees
£10.00The Man Who Planted Trees
“[This] simple classic may just hold the secret to meaningful existence.”?Richard Powers, author of The Overstory “This book is so hopeful . . . [and] it is something I believe?that you can change the world by planting trees.”?Alice Waters, author of We Are What We Eat Twenty years ago Chelsea Green published the first trade edition of The Man Who Planted Trees, a timeless eco-fable about what one person can do to restore the earth. The hero of the story, Elzéard Bouffier, spent his life planting one hundred acorns a day in a desolate, barren section of Provence in the south of France. The result was a total transformation of the landscape-from one devoid of life, with miserable, contentious inhabitants, to one filled with the scent of flowers, the songs of birds, and fresh, flowing water. Since our first publication, the book has sold over a quarter of a million copies and inspired countless numbers of people ar
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The Map of Leaves
£7.99The Map of Leaves
Since Ma died, Orla has lived alone in a woodshed by the river. Her garden provides everything she needs. But when people begin to fall sick, Governor Atlas decrees that the plants are the cause and must be destroyed. Armed only with her mother’s book of remedies Orla sets out on a barge-boat to discover the truth and save her garden …
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The oak tree
£12.99The oak tree
Watch a thousand years unfold in the life of one magnificent tree!
A tiny acorn grows . . . into an enormous oak tree! It lives for a thousand years – then a new acorn sprouts, beginning the cycle of life all over again. With its rich, poetic rhyme and gorgeous illustrations, this is a captivating celebration of nature and wildlife.
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Trees
£10.99Trees
Discover the wonders at the centre of our planet’s ecosystem. In ten short and accessible essays, science and nature writer Carolyn Fry takes us on an awe-inspiring journey of the Earth’s lungs. From what makes a plant a tree and the incredible impact of forests, to how trees are under attack and what we can do to save them, this book will enthral and inform on the monumental power of the humble tree.
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Understorey
£18.99Understorey
Artist and writer Anna Chapman Parker records in prose and stunning original line drawings a year spent looking closely at weeds, our most ubiquitous plants.Â
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