Showing posts with label Orchids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orchids. Show all posts
Saturday, May 25, 2019

Lawyering the mistletoe

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“Fridlysta växter” is a book in Swedish about plants and somewhat-allied organisms protected by law in Sweden. As usual, illustrator...
Saturday, September 22, 2018

Plain orchids

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“Orchids” is a book written by Henrik Aerenlund Pedersen, with illustrations by Bo Mossberg. At least in Sweden, Mossberg is often r...
Saturday, September 8, 2018

Excuse me, is this a comedy?

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"Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid". It sounded promising, but for various reasons, I missed the first 50 minutes o...
Monday, August 27, 2018

Wind in the willows

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This is the book version of David Attenborough's TV series “The Private Life of Plants”. Books like these were indispensable i...
Monday, August 13, 2018

Also available in English

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This is the original Swedish edition of Sven Nilsson's book "Orchids of Northern Europe". It's probably mostly of in...

Not exotic enough?

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A review of "A Celebration of Flowers"  I never heard of Curtis's Botanical Magazine (now Kew Magazine), but it'...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

The wilder orchids

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Although "Wild orchids of southern Africa" is probably too large to bring with you in the field, this is nevertheless a kind...
Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Lars Jonsson´s wonderful birds

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A review of "Lars Jonsson´s Birds: Paintings from a Near Horizon" Lars Jonsson is a Swedish painter and amateur naturali...
Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Why I flunked botany 101

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A review of Fitter-Fitter-Blamey, the classical field guide to British and Northern European plants. I've realized that I'll ne...

Clinical, antiseptic and boring

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Perhaps it's pointless to criticize a field guide for being frankly boring, rather than being an aesthetically pleasing experience....

Boring, meaningless and cheap

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A review of "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids" by Alec Pridgeon. This isn't really an encyclopaedia. Rather...
Friday, July 27, 2018

Orchids as art

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"Orchids of Northern Europe" by Sven Nilsson and Bo Mossberg was published by Penguin in 1979. I have the Swedish original ...