Flowers of the Field: Meadow, Moor and Woodland

Britain has a diverse range of habitats for wildflowers, from machair grasslands to chalk cliffs and pinewoods to wetlands. Steve Nicholls presents a visually stunning survey of Britain's best-loved wildflowers, illustrated with his own beautiful photographs. He explores the social and cultural history of wildflowers, including daffodil trains and the Bath asparagus, which is not an asparagus but the edible flower buds of the rare spiked star of Bethlehem.

Format: Hardback
Length: 448 pages
Publication date: 03 October 2019
Publisher: Head of Zeus

From the machair grasslands of the Outer Hebrides to the chalk cliffs of Kent, and from the dense pinewoods of Abernethy forest to the wetlands of the Fens of eastern England, Britain offers a richly varied array of habitats for our wild flowers. The distinguished science and natural history producer and filmmaker Steve Nicholls presents a visually stunning survey of Britain's best-loved wildflowers, illustrated with his own beautiful photographs of flora in their habitat. Focusing on three broad habitats – grassland, open land, and woodland – he offers a biologically rigorous but engagingly readable account of our wild flowers and the places that nourish them. He probes deep into the social and cultural history of wild flowers to tell a plethora of fascinating stories, from the daffodil trains that transported Londoners to the golden triangle in Gloucestershire to experience woodlands carpeted with wild daffodils, to the odd case of the Bath asparagus, which isn't an asparagus at all but rather the edible flower buds of the rare spiked star of Bethlehem, which used to grow in abundance around Bath.

From the machair grasslands of the Outer Hebrides to the chalk cliffs of Kent, and from the dense pinewoods of Abernethy forest to the wetlands of the Fens of eastern England, Britain offers a richly varied array of habitats for our wild flowers. The distinguished science and natural history producer and filmmaker Steve Nicholls presents a visually stunning survey of Britain's best-loved wildflowers, illustrated with his own beautiful photographs of flora in their habitat. Focusing on three broad habitats – grassland, open land, and woodland – he offers a biologically rigorous but engagingly readable account of our wild flowers and the places that nourish them. He probes deep into the social and cultural history of wild flowers to tell a plethora of fascinating stories, from the daffodil trains that transported Londoners to the golden triangle in Gloucestershire to experience woodlands carpeted with wild daffodils, to the odd case of the Bath asparagus, which isn't an asparagus at all but rather the edible flower buds of the rare spiked star of Bethlehem, which used to grow in abundance around Bath.

Weight: 1300g
Dimension: 243 x 124 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781789540543