Description: Scotland's plants define its landscape. Drawing together traditional knowledge from archives and oral histories with the work of some of the country's finest botanical artists, this book is a magnificent celebration of the enormous wealth of Scottish plant lore.
Brief description: Dr Greg Kenicer is a botanist at Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden. His PhD looked at DNA, diversity and evolution of pulses. After its completion he returned to Edinburgh and joined RBGE's thriving education department, where he has worked ever since.
Review Quotes: A small number of books are so beautiful, or so interesting, or so useful as a reference that you know immediately you will be returning to the time and again. Scottish Plant Lore is one of those all-too-rare books that qualify on all three fronts...Everything about this book exudes quality'-- "Undiscovered Scotland"