March 2024 Issue Charles Elliott Leeches, Stings & Lunacy Pathless Forest: The Quest to Save the World’s Largest Flowers By Chris Thorogood LR
July 2020 Issue Charles Elliott Borneo on Thames Palace of Palms: Tropical Dreams and the Making of Kew By Kate Teltscher LR
May 2020 Issue Patricia Fara The Green-Fingered Lothario The Multifarious Mr Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, the Natural Historian Who Shaped the World By Toby Musgrave LR
November 1996 Issue Anthony Clare Romantic on the Loose The Island of the Colour-Blind By Oliver Sacks
April 1980 Issue Lesley Chamberlain Is What I See A Flower? Botany: A Study of Pure Curiosity By Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Kate Ottevanger (trans.) LR
June 2016 Issue Tim Richardson Altering the Landscape Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist By Jens Hoffmann & Claudia J Nahson
December 2015 Issue Charles Elliot Ways of Seeding The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination By Richard Mabey LR
June 2003 Issue Christopher Ondaatje You Give Me Fever The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria, Medicine and the Cure that Changed the World By Fiammetta Rocco LR
April 2015 Issue Patrick Wilcken Three of a Kind Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon By John Hemming LR
May 2004 Issue Miranda Seymour Herbal History A Little History of British Gardening By Jenny Uglow Tales of the Rose Tree: Ravishing Rhododendrons and Their Travels Around the World By Jane Brown LR
August 2004 Issue Christopher Ondaatje The Potent Pod Vanilla: Travels in Search of the Luscious Substance By Tim Ecott LR
September 2013 Issue Charles Elliott Beautiful Monster The Flower of Empire: An Amazonian Water Lily, the Quest to Make It Bloom, and the World It Created By Tatiana Holway LR
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