Beautifully photographed in full colour, Wild Flowers: of Britain and Ireland provides expert guidance to help you recognise and understand over 1,000 species found across our forests, parks and gardens. The perfect guide for any enthusiast of the natural world, from the acclaimed and award-winning photographer and botanist Roger Phillips.From woodlands and meadows to hedgerows and your own garden, this book enables you to identify all the wild flowers found on the British Isles. The plants are arranged month-by-month, in order of flowering, and by turning the pages through the book you journey through the year.Wild Flowers also draws on Roger's extensive expertise to provide fascinating details, including habitat, rarity, the distribution of each plant, the height, flowering period, and backgrounds both medical or historical.With both English and botanical names and an index for ease of navigation, this is a comprehensive and essential photographic guide to the floral beauty hidden across this land.
About the Author
In 1975 Roger Phillips began his life’s major work of photographing and publishing pictures of the world’s garden plants. He set out to develop an encyclopedic collection of books to show the difference between plants as diverse as mosses, roses and annuals. His first book, Wild Flowers of Britain (1977), was a huge success, selling 400,000 copies in the first year. He since wrote over thirty additional volumes (often with his co-author Martyn Rix) selling over 6 million copies worldwide. Roger has written and presented two major six-part TV series on gardening (BBC & Channel 4). Famed for his ebullient personality and garish red glasses, he was a well-recognised figure in the world of gardening. He received an MBE for his work on London’s garden squares. Roger Phillips died in November 2021.