The compendium offers snapshots Royal Botanic Gardens Kew's collections.
This compact hardback features 70 colour photos of 70 buildings, plants and objects from Kew.
These include subjects as varied as the Pagoda (10 storeys, built 1762), a pygmy Rwandan waterlily, Joseph Hooker's Rhododendron Dell, some 1827 lacebark slippers, Darwin's fungus (1844) and the 2025 Carbon Garden.
Co-author Carolyn Fry recently also wrote a book covering a year in Kew's arboretum, Among the Giants.
Fellow author Emma Townshend's name is familar from the Independent on Sunday and from her famous father, Pete of The Who.
This perhaps accounts for the eclectic and entertaining array of artworks, plants and architecture from through the ages of Kew featured in this stylish tome.
The book is just £10 and, of course, supports Kew.
