Books About Trees

[aeshna5]

Originally Posted by Jez

Good link Mike! Would like to know more from Aeshna5!

Hi Jez- a few from my shelves- for ID these days I tend to use

Collins Tree guide-Johnson+ More (portable)

A monster volume (+ pricey) is the superb Cassell's Trees of Britain + Northern Europe with over 1800 species +cultivars- by More/White

Previously used various Alan Mitchell guides; also a good read is this late tree expert's Trees of Britain.

The Tree Book by Edward Milner was in conjunction with a Channel 4 series + lots of interesting stuff.

Woodlands- Oliver Rackham- New Naturalist volume

Agree about Reader's Digest guide- a lovely series of books

There's a few to be going on with!

[tameblackbirds]

Originally Posted by Jez

Thanks for posting I do have a copy and agree, clear illustrations! I'm also partial to there book on wildflowers again good illustrations, origins + good history from Culpepper and folklore.

Yeh i have that one too Jez and enjoy the folklore very interesting

[Hobjob]

careful with Oliver Rackam's book - it is very far from a field guide!
Its a description of ancient woods, and how they have evolved
over the centuries in relation to social history.

Fascinating stuff, but a bit more than a casual read. He does
courses at the FSCs (Field Studies Council)
which are well worth doing, but he is the
very epitome of the mad one-track-minded mad professor