Creed, P. & Hudson, R. A Guide To Finding Wild Food. In Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, & Oxfordshire.
Pub. Pisces Publications. 2014 pp.73 with many delightfully vivid colour photographs throughout. New softback. With such excellent photography, this guide would be of use to all those interested in this subject no matter where they live.
The three counties of Berks, Bucks and Oxon are home to many of the most common and flavoursome wild foods that can be found throughout the year. This guide helps to identify 35 species. Each entry is beautifully photographed, whilst the text provides key characteristics and habitat information.
£5.95 [ref: 47617]

view all images for this item

de la Bedoyere, Charlotte Portrait of a Woodland. Biodiversity in 40 acres.
1st. Ed. Pub. Search Press. 2004 pp.175 with many fine coloured photographs. 4to. New hardback with new dw. RRP £25.00.
This book deals with one persons obsession with 40 acres of woodland and shows how biodiversity can be enhanced.
£19.99 [ref: 49135]

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]

Fleischmann, A. Monograph of the Genus Genlisea.
1st. Ed. Pub. Redfern Natural History. 2013 pp.727 with colour and b/w. photos. throughout. Large 8vo. New hardback in new dw.
The first complete monograph of all 29 species of Genlisea. Also known as corkscrew plants, Genlisea produce underground leaves that act as traps to capture and kill micro-organisms. Included are many obscure species never before photographed or documented, and one new taxon that is described and introduced for the first time.
£35.00 [ref: 59866]

Fraser, M. The Smallest Kingdom. Plant and Plant Collectors at the Cape of Good Hope.
1st. Ed. Pub. Kew. 2011 pp.220 with colour illus., thoughout. 4to. New hardback in new dw. RRP £27.99
‘The Smallest Kingdom’ is a beautifully illustrated account of the botanical exploration of South Africa's Cape Floral Kingdom and the plants that this region has given to the gardens of the world over the last four centuries.
£15.00 [ref: 57096]

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]