I’ve only recently begun listening to the Royal Horticultural Society’s “Gardening with the RHS” podcast but in that short time I’ve become quite fond of it.
The RHS Podcast – Garden and Botanical Books
Botany
Aquatic Plants of Northern and Central Europe including Britain and Ireland
Continuing with the theme of enormous new books this week here in The Well-read Naturalist, the recently published “Aquatic Plants of Northern and Central Europe including Britain and Ireland” from Princeton University Press in their WILDGuides series is a tome that would indeed cause Neville Longbottom himself to sit up and take notice.
Tree by Tree
Should the American Robins or Blue Jays, or any creature most humans can readily identify and see with regularity, rapidly decline in numbers, alarm bells would be rung near and far. However if the American Elms rapidly began to sicken and die, few but the most botanically astute would likely even notice until it was far too late.
In the Herbarium
For readers of Prof. Maura Flannery’s superb long-running blog on the subject of herbaria, the simple statement “Prof. Maura Flannery has written a book on the history of herbaria” is a sufficient declaration to cause a run on copies at bookshops across the land. However for those not already among the readers of her blog, I hope these humble words I’ve here assembled will cause both regular readership of it as well as a run to your local bookshop.