Philips Guide to Wildflowers

If you are creating or maintaining a wildflower meadow or a wild life  
garden then this is the book for you. It’s a handy guide that is easy  
to use to identify plants you have never seen before or simply to  
confirm a plant’s name and details you might already know.
It’s no easy task writing such a guide as this, by its very nature it  
has  to be accurate in respect of  descriptions and botanical  
drawing. Just to make the task of writing such a guide even more  
difficult plant names and families are changed all the time by the  
powers that be and wild flowers themselves grow from seed and  
constantly change and evolve to suit their local environment .

The Philips Guide to Wildflowers is a worthy result to all the effort  
from its two authors, Bob Gibbons and Peter Brough. As with all good  
guides as well as helping you to identify different plants it also  
helps educate you as to the plant’s family, growing regions, soil  
types  and flowering times and other additional information.

One of the best parts of the book is the key to the different plant  
groups near the front of the book that enables you to quickly narrow  
down the possible groups to which a plant you are trying to identify  
might belong.

At a shade under ten pounds its a worthy and most useful addition to  
any gardener’s library particularly if your gardening interest extends to  
observing wildflowers in their native positions in hedgerows, woods  
and wildflower meadows.

 

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