[PDF] Marjorie Blameys Flowers Of The Countryside eBook

Author : Philip Blamey
Publisher : William Morrow &Company
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 31,68 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780688036850

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Marjorie and Philip Blamey have travelled the world to record and paint rare and beautiful plants, but this book is a personal celebration of their favorite subject--the wild flowers of their own countryside.

Author : Marjorie Blamey
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 26,25 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Flowers
ISBN : 9780713672374

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This is an innovative and remarkably user-friendly guide to the identification of the flowers of Britain and northwestern Europe. By organising the species by their colour group first (and by family within that colour group), this guide enables those less familiar with flower taxonomy to quickly and easily find what they are looking for - a great improvement on the often-frustrating business of trawling through a conventionally-organised guide. The lovely artwork by acclaimed illustrator Marjorie Blamey, with a neat, focused and simple text, makes this book a joy to use.

Author : Marjorie Blamey
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Wild flowers
ISBN : 9780713659443

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The first ever fully-illustrated, fully-mapped guide to the British and Irish flora. Its restriction to the British Isles alone allows far more detail and more local information, and identification which is made easier with the inclusion of extensive maps. Includes specific details about plants appearing in certain areas and coloured maps designed to make location and identification easy, this book also includes details of local specialities for the Isles of Scilly. Also featured is an illustrated survey of recently disappeared British and Irish plants, some of which may return. With over 2000 detailed colour paintings and more than 800 maps, this is the most extensively illustrated wild flower guide to Britain and Ireland yet. Coloured, boxed keys to plants in complex or difficult groups are provided to assist ID. The Wild Flowers of Britain and Ireland features information about grasses, which are often omitted in other, shorter books, along with sedges, rushes, horsetails and clubmosses. Ferns, though not strictly speaking flowering plants, are also included too.

Author : Marjorie Blamey
Publisher : Lubrecht & Cramer Limited
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Botanical illustration
ISBN : 9780340401705

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Containing new full-colour illustrations of over 2400 plants in Europe, this combines the paintings of the noted botanical artist Marjorie Blamey with text by Christopher Grey-Wilson, a leading professional at Kew. Grasses are omitted but introduced species are covered.

Author : Marjorie Blamey
Publisher : Christopher Helm Publishers, Incorporated
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Botany
ISBN : 9780713670158

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This book is the standard field guide to the flowers, fruit trees, grasses and ferns found in the countries bordering the Mediterranean. It covers Portugal, Spain, France, Corsica, Italy, Sardinia, Sicily, the Balkans, Greece, Crete, Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco - in all over 2500 plant species are described. Introductory chapters cover the general ecology and climate of the region, and describe the structure of the book and how to use it. Illustrated by renowned botanical artist Marjorie Blamey, and written by leading field botanist Christopher Grey-Wilson, this field guide will enable anyone to identify the wild plants found in this lovely and diverse region.

Author : David Streeter
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 20,7 MB
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0007183887

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Featuring all flowering plants, including trees, grasses, and ferns, this brand-new field guide to the flowers of Britain and northern Europe is the most complete illustrated, single-volume guide ever published. Leading botanical artists have been specially commissioned to ensure accurate, detailed illustrations. Species are described and illustrated on the same page, with up-to-date authoritative text aiding identification. Plants are arranged by family, with their key features highlighted for quick and easy reference. The text offers a complete account of more than 1,900 wild flowers of Britain and Ireland, along with a summary of their European distribution.Collins Flower Guideis an indispensable guide for all those with an interest in the countryside, whether amateur or expert.

Author : David C. Stuart
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,12 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780674011045

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As our earliest ancestors migrated out of Africa, they encountered entirely new floras. By sampling these, they found plants that appeared to (and sometimes did) heal wounds, cure maladies, and ease troubled minds. This process of discovery continues today, as multinational pharmaceutical companies bioprospect in the globe's remaining wild places for the next tamoxifen or digitalis. The gardener and botanist David Stuart tells the fascinating story of botanical medicine, revealing more than soothing balms and heroic cures. Most of the truly powerful and effective medicinal plants are double-edged, with a dark side to balance the light. They can heal or kill, calm or enslave, lift depression or summon our gods and monsters. Often the difference between these polar effects is a simple change in dosage. Stuart chronicles the tale of how the herbal materia medica of healing and killing plants has sparked wars, helped establish intercontinental trade routes, and seeded fortunes. As plant species traveled the globe, their medicinal uses evolved over miles and through centuries. Plants once believed to be cure-alls are now considered too dangerous for use. Others, once so valuable that they sowed the wealth of empires, are merely spices on the kitchen shelf. David Stuart recounts engrossing human stories too, not only of the scientists, explorers, and doctors who gathered, named, and prescribed these plants but also the shamans, magicians, and quacks who claimed to possess the ultimate herbal aphrodisiac or elixir.