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http://igpsblogs.wordpress.com/2014/11/09/the-irish-garden-jane-powers-and-jonathan-hession/ A new book on Irish Gardens.
Ah Paddy, I was afraid you'd say that
Sounds excellent and one to look out for; thanks Paddy.Congratulations too on the revamped IGPS website. Beautiful, interesting and dynamic. Well done to all involved & best wishes for the future.
Over the past few years a number of books have been published about Turkey’s rich, natural flora. It is interesting to note that most of these books were written by people whose passion for nature began as a hobby. Erdoğan Tekin also falls into this category of people whose hobbies have inspired them to produce something to be cherished by many enthusiasts alike.Essentially an engineer, Tekin has worked as a professor in the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department of the Middle East Technical University in Ankara for forty years. During the 80’s, he focused his personal love of photography into searching for wild flowers. However, it was not until the 90’s that Tekin started looking for information on the flowers he ‘hunted’.Upon reading books written mostly for botanists Tekin’s knowledge and interest grew, leading him to photographing wild flowers more consciously. As his collection neared an astonishing 30,000 slides, covering 1,500 species, Tekin’s friends persuaded him to publish them, thus resulting in these two amazing volumes, The Most Beautiful Wild Flowers of Turkey Vol. I-II.Containing more than one thousand flowers, the first volume of The Most Beautiful Wild Flowers of Turkey was an instant best seller, with four print-runs in a short amount of time. The book also served as a meeting point for similar enthusiasts, which in turn opened the door to the second volume, this time compiled with contributions from 18 other plant lovers from different parts of Turkey and adding a further 600 flowers to the collection.The Most Beautiful Wild Flowers of Turkey comprises more than 2,000 photographs, detailed in accessible tables, providing information on any given flower. In order to realise the full potential of the book, readers are given an initial guide to the page layout and the many different signs they will encounter in the aforementioned tables. Information regarding the family and species of the flower, its form, height and distribution in Turkey, as well as habitat and flowering period and, of course, its common name in both Turkish and English are well presented along with the photographs.There is yet another important detail I was delighted to discover whilst leafing through these colourful pages: the flowers are divided into chapters according to their colours, as well as being presented by their flower form. This is an ingenious way of making things much simpler for a wild life enthusiast, saving him/her hours in the search for information. Hence, the reader need look only at the colour and then count the petals, requiring only a few pages research before finding the desired plant.The Most Beautiful Wild Flowers of Turkey is a remarkable guide for those who wish to know more about the wild flowers surrounding us. Written both in Turkish and English, it is also suitable for foreign visitors interested in Turkey’s flora. These volumes are a wonderful achievement by Erdoğan Tekin, who has transformed his interest in the natural world into something valuable, whilst also providing Turkey with a much needed resource about its wild flowers.
Forumist Stephenb from Malvik, Norway - well known to us here as a man " eating his way through the world's 15,000+ edible species" has got a book coming out shortly. The book is " Around The World in 80 Plants: An Edible Perennial Vegetable Adventure For Temperate Climates" by Stephen BarstowSee here for more : http://permanentpublications.co.uk/port/around-the-world-in-80-plants-an-edible-perennial-vegetable-adventure-for-temperate-climates-by-stephen-barstow/
