Around the World in 80 Plants

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I bought this as a Christmas Gift for my mum who is crazy about Candles, Flowers, Smellies and Chocolates. Most of his choices are two pages - a few are four and those have more illustrations possibly likely due to the diversity (squashes, pumpkins and gourds) or the history (cocoa). You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Once again, the production quality of this book is astounding and impressive (immediately noticeable are the thick pages) and wonderful illustrations that show the full plant, details and a bit of its surroundings either on one page or on a double-spread.

A lot of her personal work is inspired by London’s architecture and the relationship between Nature and urbanisation.It's fair to say that Jonathan Drori, who has spent his life involved with plants and is now a member of the Council of Ambassadors of WWF and The Woodland Trust, has a real place in his hear for the simple and overlooked. Maybe you'll just want to read up on one of the 80 plants or at other times get stuck into a geographic section.

He brings with him a cheerfully wry sense of humour and a wonderful way of explaining to the previously ignorant the golden nuggets of fact, the "did you knows? Yet tobacco has killed and maimed more people than any other plant, and uses 40,000 square kilometres (15,500 square miles) of the Earth’s surface that could grow food or be set aside to conserve valuable forest habitats. I’m afraid they are the hussies of the flower world and with that information I can no longer look at them without imagining a poor bee thinking it got a mate when instead it got duped.He is on the board of Cambridge University Botanic Garden, and is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, the Zoological Society of London and the Royal Geographical Society. Apart from telling us all about the plant's quirks, Drori also sometimes adds a slightly cynical or critical note about humans and the way we treat or have been treating the plants in question, not in the least because that behaviour threatens our own lives, or all life on our precious planet. Monty Don, Author and Broadcaster ~‘I have always believed the three Ps – Plants, People and Places – offered an unending source of stories worth the telling and this book proves the point.