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Bring on the birch!
Birch by Anna Lewington 2018. Reaktion Books Ltd. “Miserable, naked, hungry”. These three little words are used by the Phytophactor (the ‘nom de blog’ of Illinois
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We want yew!
The immortal yew by Tony Hall, 2018. Kew Publishing. Is the yew actually immortal? Certainly, trees can live for many thousands of years – e.g. 4,
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Plants are weird – and rather wonderful too!
Weird Plants by Chris Thorogood, 2018. Kew Publishing. There is a view that plants are sufficiently amazing in their own right that they don’t need
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Plant food and sex (lots of sex!)
Sex on the Kitchen Table: The Romance of Plants and your Food by Norman C Ellstrand 2018. University of Chicago Press. What comes to mind at
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Plants bridging the gap(s)
Land Bridges: Ancient environmental plant migrations, and New World connections by Alan Graham 2018. University of Chicago Press. Why are the Earth’s terrestrial organisms found
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How many beans make … 600?
The Book of Seeds: A life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world, Edited by Paul Smith 2018. University of Chicago Press. The
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Monstrous botanicals, the darker side of the human imagination
Monsters Under Glass: A Cultural History of Hothouse Flowers from 1850 to the Present by Jane Desmarais 2018. Reaktion Books Ltd. Probably, the most obvious interaction
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To find true botanical art, go … North!
Marianne North: the Kew Collection by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, 2018. Kew Publishing. The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew are rightly famed for their living collection
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The incredible journey of etrog, a most religious fruit
Etrog: How a Chinese fruit became a Jewish symbol by David Moster 2018. Palgrave Pivot. It is fair to say that Etrog: How a Chinese fruit
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A date with history: The past, present, and future of palms…
Palm by Fred Gray 2018. Reaktion Books Ltd. Fred Gray’s Palm [hereafter referred to as … Palm] is the second title in Reaktion Books’ Botanical series
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The War Between Trees and Grasses by Howard Thomas: The Book I wished I’d had as an Undergraduate.
What drives the author to spend time on the piano to re-establish calm or why did the song The Teddy Bears’ Picnic leave an unsettling
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80 wonderful trees and their stories
Around the World in 80 Trees by Jonathan Drori 2018. Laurence King Publishing Ltd. Stephen Barstow did it with plants, Dan Cruikshank did it with man-