Kew Pocketbooks: Mediterranean Plants
Product Description
The Mediterranean’s fascinating flora showcased through 40 stunning paintings from the Kew Archives.
Author: Tony Hall, 96 pages, 40 illustrations, 140 x 185 mm. Hardback, ISBN 9781842468647, Kew Publishing, 2026.
This unique series of pocketbooks from Kew offers a snapshot into the diverse and beautiful world of plants and fungi. Each book lavishly showcases choice examples from different groups or collections.
From the culinary delights of fennel and caper to the curiously named Shrubby hare’s ear and spiny broom, the beautiful wild flowers of the Mediterranean thrive through cool, rainy winters and hot, dry summers alike. Famous for classic sandy beaches and idyllic islands dotted across clear blue waters, the Mediterranean basin instantly captivating. Yet beyond the postcard views lies a remarkably varied landscape, spanning high mountains, rocky coastlines, shaded forests and scrubland shores – a hotspot of plant diversity.
This Kew Pocketbook is an expedition through some of the Mediterranean’s most fascinating flora, showcased through 40 stunning paintings from the Kew Archives.
The Library and Archives at Kew is one of the most extensive botanical libraries in the world, with the oldest item dating back to the 1370s. In this pocketbook series from Kew, each book presents 40 botanical paintings from the collections, illustrating the variety within each group, as well as the diversity of the collection and artistic styles.
An introductory chapter by Kew expert Tony Hall provides an overview of this plant group, and extended captions accompany each painting.
The luxury finish on these books makes them a must-have gift item, printed on uncoated paper and with a cloth and foil finish.
Author Information
Tony Hall is the author of Gardening with Scented Plants (Kew Publishing, 2025), Gardening with Winter Plants (Kew Publishing, 2024), Gardening with Drought Friendly Plants (Kew Publishing, 2020), The Kew Gardener’s Guide to Growing Roses (Frances Lincoln in association with Kew, 2021), Great Trees of Britain and Ireland (Kew Publishing, 2022), and The Immortal Yew (Kew Publishing, 2018).
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