Dines, Trevor. Urban Plants. British Wildlife Collection No. 15.
1st. Ed. Pub. Bloomsbury. 2025 pp.384 with col. photos. throughout, plus illus. and maps. 4to. New hardback in new dw. RRP £40.00.
An illuminating account of urban botany in the British Isles. Trevor Dines tells the stories of our urban flowers, ferns and conifers: how they arrived, how they survive, and how a select few seize the opportunity to become masters of the streets, thriving in the face of constant upheaval and change.
£36.00 [ref: 70157]

Farjon, Aljos. Ancient Oaks in the English Landscape.
1st. Ed. Pub. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017 pp.348 with 190 colour photographs, colour & b/w. illus., and tables. 4to. New hardback. Highly recommended.
England has more ancient native oak trees than the rest of Europe combined. In ‘Ancient Oaks In the English Landscape’, Aljos Farjon combines history with science and tells the story of how ancient oaks have shaped the English landscape over the past 1,000 years.
£30.00 [ref: 52733]

Fry, Carolyn (et al). The Last Great Plant Hunt. The Story of Kew's Millennium Seed Bank Project
1st. Ed. Pub. Kew. 2011 pp.192 with 155 colour photographs. Large 4to. New hardback in new dw. RRP £27.99.
This wonderfully illustrated work describes the importance of seed collecting and the work of Kew's Millennium Seed Bank, the process of collecting and taking care of seeds, the uses of banked seed, and the future of seed conservation worldwide.
£22.50 [ref: 62164]

Gale, Rowena & Cutler, David. Plants in Archaeology. Identification manual of artefacts of plant origin from Europe and the Mediterranean.
1st. Ed. Pub. Westbury. 2000 pp.xiii, 512 with b/w. microscopic photos. Large 4to. New hardback in new dw. RRP £75.00.
A practical guide to the identification of vegetative plant materials used in Europe and the southern Mediterranean from the early prehistoric to c. 1500 AD. One hundred and sixty species illustrated with over 600 photomicrographs.
£65.00 [ref: 50922]

Gardner, C. & Gardner, B. Flora of the Mediterranean. With California, Chile, Australia and South Africa.
1st. Ed. Pub. Bloomsbury Wildlife. 2019 pp.ix, 422 with colour photos., throughout. 4to. New hardback in new dw. RRP £40.00.
With 600 stunning colour photographs, and presenting a breadth of flora never before brought together in a single volume, the authors offer a unique window on the flora of the Mediterranean world.
£36.00 [ref: 61001]

Gardner, Martin. The Yew Hedge. Conserving ancient trees from the UK and beyond.
1st. Ed. Pub. RBG Edinburgh. 2022 pp.170 with 57 b/w. illus. 8vo. Hardback. New. RRP £20.00.
Tells the fascinating story of some remarkable native forests and heritage trees of the European yew (Taxus baccata) located in the UK and overseas. The progeny of the trees have been planted to form a unique conservation hedge which now surrounds the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. It comprises of almost 2,000 trees collected from 16 countries where they are threatened.
£18.00 [ref: 62940]

Ghazanfar, S.A. (et al). A Herbal of Iraq. A herbal inspired by the work of Abdul Jaleel Ibrahim Al-Quragheely, the Doctor of Al-Ashab.
1st. Ed. Pub. Kew. 2022 pp.xviii, 134 with archival and contemporary botanical art. Small 4to. New hardback.
Plant-based medicine has always played an important role in the daily lives of Iraqis. Edited by experts from both the University of Oxford and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – working in collaboration with Iraqi botanists – ‘A Herbal of Iraq’ describes fifty plants and their uses in traditional herbal medicine in the region.
£18.00 [ref: 62685]

Glasby, J.S. Dictionary of Plants Containing Secondary Metabolites.
Pub. Taylor and Francis. 1991 pp. 488. New hardback with a couple of minor marks. In-print at £405.00.
Lists over 8,000 plants containing important chemical compounds.
£75.00 [ref: 33748]

Goodman, Jordan. Planting the World. Joseph Banks and his Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany.
1st. Ed. Pub. William Collins. 2020 pp.xxxix, 520 with colour illus. Large 8vo. New hardback in new dw. RRP £25.00
Based on original sources, Goodman gives a momentous history of how the discoveries made by Banks and his collectors advanced scientific understanding around the world.
£23.50 [ref: 58980]

Grey-Wilson, Christopher. Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of the Western Alps. France, Italy and Switzerland.
1st. Ed. Pub. Kew. 2025 pp.736 with over 2000 colour photographs. 8vo. Softback. New. RRP £55.00.
This long-awaited field guide covers more than 2,000 of the region’s exceptionally diverse and important plant-life, from the most common species to local endemics. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs, each species profile includes nomenclature, description, dimensions, habitat, flowering times and distribution.
£49.00 [ref: 72295]