Wild Flowers of Britain

by Roger Phillips, Sheila Grant

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Genres: Nonfiction, Nature, Reference, Gardening, Plants, Science, Natural History

192 pages, Paperback

First published May 21, 1977

About the author

In 1975 Roger Phillips began his life’s major work of photographing and publishing pictures of the World’s garden plants. Using modern photographic techniques, Roger set out to develop an encyclopedic collection of books to show the difference between plants as diverse as mosses, roses and annuals. His first book Wild Flowers of Britain was a huge success, selling 400,000 copies in the first year. He has since written 20 additional volumes (often with his co-author Martyn Rix) selling over 4.5million copies worldwide.

Roger has written and presented two major six-part TV series on gardening (BBC & Channel 4). Famed for his ebullient personality and garish red glasses, he has become a well-recognised figure in the world of gardening.

Roger trained at Chelsea School of Art from where he entered a career in advertising culminating in the position of art director at Ogilvy & Mather Advertising. He left O&M to start a career as a freelance photographer, winning many awards before turning his photographic talents to the world of natural history.

Reviews

[Sam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quite a useful guide to the more common wild flowers, shrubs and trees found across the UK with photographs and short descriptions of each. The photos tend to be more helpful when identifying a species but the descriptions help reinforce this by giving the habitat types and likely areas where each species will be found. Not particularly field friendly though.

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the very best guide to wildflowers I have ever come across. I have had my copy since 1978 and, due to the fact that the guide is photographic and shows plants at various chronological stages of development, I have never been unable to identify a plant/flower. My reason for thinking to write this review now is that just recently, when on a walk with my niece and nephew, we noticed a plant which had large green seed pods, almost like chillies, which I was unable to identify. However, looking at the appropriate date in the guide we discovered that they were the seed pods of the Yellow Flag! My young relatives were so impressed that I am now in the process of tracking down copies for each of them!

[Mari-Elaine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book I have found for identification of weeds / wild flowers & my agronomist ex agrees.