To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. So depending on your skill level, you should be able to ID a plant pre-flowering which is when you generally want to eat it – Read more. The former Prince of Wales was born Charles Phillip Arthur George at Buckingham Palace on 14th November 1948. At The Tree Council we are often asked for our recommendations of useful tree reference books and other tree guides.

One of the best modern tree identification books, this guide covers a wide variety of trees and has a simple key at the beginning to help you get started, as well as good identification detail. Individual species are then thoroughly described and a detailed illustration features on the same page. Quite simply a stunning work, this book depicts 144 detailed watercolours and descriptions of a wide range of different apples from Beauty of Bath to Egremont Russet. He had an insatiable thirst for compiling lists, helped by a genuine photographic memory for statistics. Victoria Schilling worked alongside Alan Mitchell as assistant dendrologist at Alice Holt for many years before Alan retired and together they set up the tree consultancy Green Scene.

His travels enabled him to find and re-measure trees recorded by JC Loudon in the 1800's, Elwes and Henry 1906-1913, the 1890 and 1930 Conifer Conference Reports by the Royal Horticultural Society and the more recent work of the Hon. With Vegetative Key to the British Flora, the aim of the authors is to “enable reliable identification at any stage of growth”. Dendrologist, conservationist and author of The Sussex Tree Book, the Collins Tree Guide, Champion Trees of Britain and Ireland and Arboretum.

Most wild food books only give cursory plant ID specifics and are generally not enough to ensure absolute certainty. Featuring 80 native and ornamental species, this book gives growing tips, facts, statistics and tree trivia and is illustrated throughout with photography and line drawings. This can cause a problem for beginners as they have to wait a full year after the plant has flowered to be able to ID it again. The introduction contains illustrations of the main leaves, buds, and firs you are likely to find, and these provide the starting point for identification by leading you to a 'key' species.This brand-new field guide to the trees of northern Europe contains some of the finest original tree illustrations ever produced.

This comprehensive guide to British trees contains some of the finest original tree illustrations ever produced.This is the ideal pocket guide for travelling naturalists and tree enthusiasts alike and is an essential addition to every nature lover's bookshelves. Then individual species are clearly described and a detailed illustration is given on the same page. Alan retired from the Forestry Commission in 1986 and set up a consultancy service Green Scene with Victoria Schilling (then Hallett) before founding the Tree Register in 1988.