From wedding bouquets to funeral wreaths, carnations can be seen everywhere in human culture. Their colorful but delicately folded petals have made them one of the foremost decorative flowers, from the gardens of the Ottoman Empire to American Mothers Day bouquets, via Chinese medicines and French Empresses. In this book, Twigs Way explores the extraordinary history of this inimitable flower.
The author traces the trials and tribulations of early breeders compelled by florists fascinations for the striped and spotted which led to delightfully colored (and delightfully named) varieties...

Richly illustrated throughout, Birch presents a fascinating overview of their cultural and ecological significance, from botany to literature and art, as Anna Lewington looks both at the history of birches and what the future may hold in store for them.

With vibrant illustrations and tales of medieval best-sellers, nurserymen's rivalries and changing tastes in the flower bed, this book traces the journey of the rose across the centuries, from battles to bouquets, charting its botanical, religious, literary and artistic history.

This sumptuously illustrated book tells the remarkable story of the mulberry tree.

A beautifully illustrated, natural, cultural and social history of orchids.

An in-depth social and natural history of the much-loved, highly symbolic rowan tree.

A beautifully illustrated botanical and cultural history of Europe's most ancient species of tree, the yew.