Inspired by childhood excursions with her botanist father, Sarah Raven has travelled the length and breadth of the British Isles to find 500 of our most breathtakingly beautiful wild flowers. This lavishly illustrated book is divided by habitat, covering woods, downs and dales, lanes and hedgerows, meadows, coast, marshes and streams, moors and mountains, and wasteland. Sarah introduces a wide range of plants, telling you their names and something about them - how to identify the families, how they're brilliantly adapted to their environment, their importance to animals and insects, what herbal remedies they can be used for, the story behind their common names and the part they play in local history. Join Sarah on trips to see pulsatillas, fritillaries, bluebells, wildgarlic, harebells, forget-me-nots, foxgloves, wood spurge, silverweed, purple cranesbill, deadly nightshade, St John's wort, comfrey, orchids,wood sorrel, snowdrops and more. There are glorious landscape photographs by Jonathan Buckley throughout, and one of his stunning plant portraits accompanies each of Sarah's authoritative, captivating species descriptions. Informative and lovely, Sarah Raven's Wild Flowers is a botanical marvel.

A sumptuous botanical treat, a beautiful reference book celebrating British wildflowers by this award-winning garden writer. With 500 of our most beautiful wildflowers included, the informative text describes the plants, their habitats, the folklore and local history surrounding them and the stories of their common names etc. There is glorious landscape photography by Jonathan Buckley throughout, plus one of his stunning plant portraits accompanying each entry. Sarah Raven will be presenting a BBC2 series on the subject in the autumn.

The perfect gift - a beautiful reference book celebrating British wild flowers, by the award-winning garden writer Sarah Raven