Plant
£19.95The ultimate gift for gardeners and art-lovers, featuring 300 of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical images ever – now in a handy new compact format
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Flower
£19.95A breathtaking celebration of flowers spanning centuries, cultures, and continents – now available in a compact format
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The Secret Language of Plants
£25.00An elegant reference guide to the meaning of plants in art and life. From early Egyptian reverence for the acacia and the lotus, to the Victorian language of flowers and the works of Vincent Van Gogh and Georgia O’Keeffe, we have long sought meaning in nature. Significance has often been ascribed to particular plants, referencing their uses as food or medicine, their associations with saints and heroes, or more abstract or aesthetic qualities like fortitude, beauty and strength. Weaving together botany, mythology, folklore, religious texts, and centuries of art and literature, this richly illustrated, elegant reference guide engages the cultural significance and underlying meanings of over fifty plants. Each entry is accompanied by a work of art or botanical illustration, bringing together the world of art and plants in an elegant and seamless fashion and deepening our understanding of how plants have been used by artists in the past a
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Citrus
£35.00Mandarin, citron, pomelo, bergamot, kumquat. This book traces the history of today’s global superfood from its cultivation in the ancient world from just a handful of original ‘wild’ species, via Arab trade routes, the noble collectors of medieval Europe, imperial conquerors on the high seas, and merchants risking ruin for the highest-value fruit crop ever known.
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Tree
£44.95An extraordinary collection of more than 300 images celebrating the beauty and diversity of trees
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Overleaf
£25.00Leaves live a thankless life. They go unnoticed while providing shade and cleaning the air, and are often the subject of our groans and grumbles in the autumn while being raked away. Outside of brief odes to colorful autumn foliage, their quiet, everyday beauty is usually unsung. ‘Overleaf’ is an extraordinary celebration of that most obvious and overlooked part of a tree.
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The Most Beautiful Gardens of Paris
£20.00Stroll past the flowers, plants, sculptures, and charming parterres in twenty-five gardens of Paris, to discover France’s history, culture, and botanical diversity through these open-air museums. From the most famous gardens?Versailles, Luxemburg, or Tuileries?to the hidden leafy gems?such as the Château de Saint-Jean-de-Beauregard vegetable gardens, the Bourdelle museum’s sculpture garden, or the Albert Kahn Japanese-style garden?this guide takes readers on a cultural tour of France through twenty-five spectacular gardens in and around Paris. French garden expert and television presenter Stéphane Marie takes readers through the most beloved gardens in central Paris and the surrounding countryside in this informative guide. The history and conception of each garden is explained, providing fascinating cultural and botanical context. Practical details and insightful sidebars help visitors discover the notable
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Marianne North’s travel writing
£28.00Vivid first-person account revealing North’s interests, opinions and experiences. Draws on North’s biography, personal letters, and other archival material, examined through a modern lens. Illustrated throughout with colour paintings from the Marianne North Kew collection.
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Botanical sketchbooks
£25.00While highly finished drawings and paintings frequently feature in histories of botanical art, the preparatory sketches, first impressions and creative thoughts on paper behind them are rarely seen and have often remained hidden and locked away. ‘Botanical Sketchbooks’ brings these personal and vividly spontaneous records gloriously back into the light.
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The story of flowers
£25.00Throughout history flowers have been an integral part of human survival and culture. Their shapes, colours, scents and textures have always attracted us, as they do animals and insects. Flowers are used as luxury spices (saffron), and as colouring and flavouring agents – marigolds fed to chickens make eggs more yellow and lavender was Elizabeth I’s favourite flavour of jam. Flowers are full of symbolic meaning: violets represent modesty, daises purity and daffodils unrequited love. And they have always played an important role in culture through myths and legends, literature and the decorative arts. This book brings together 100 of the world’s flowers to tell their remarkable stories. Each flower is illustrated in colour and accompanied by facts about each species and what role it has played in our culture and history.
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A Year Unfolding
£20.00‘A Year Unfolding’ is a journey through Angela Harding’s year in nature watching the seasons unfold in front of her from her studio in Rutland, and giving the reader detail into how nature transforms and evolves over the course of the year. It also tells the stories behind some of Angela’s most popular images, giving context to Angela’s celebrated work, as well as new art created specifically for the book.
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A Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables
£15.00This stunning gift book offers fruit and vegetables as detailed art, viewed through eighteenth-century eyes, allowing us to enjoy the sight of swan-necked gourds and horned lemons, smile at silkworms hovering over mulberries and delight at the quirkiness of ‘strawberry spinach’ ? a delicious medley of garden produce for gardeners and art-lovers.