Scottish Wild Flowers
Scottish Wild Flowers by Mary McMurtrie, published by Antique Collectors Club Dist on July 11, 2006, offers a detailed exploration of Scotland’s diverse flora. This edition, comprising 280 pages, presents an artistic and informative approach to the wild flowers found across various regions, including the Highlands, Central Scotland, and the West Islands. McMurtrie’s work features over 350 individual watercoloured drawings, which serve to educate readers while showcasing the beauty of these plants in their natural habitats.
Readers will find that the book is designed for quick and easy identification of Scottish wild flowers, utilizing original paintings created from live studies rather than photographs. This method allows for a more nuanced representation of the flora, highlighting the unique characteristics of each species. While not a comprehensive flora, the book effectively captures the essence of Scotland’s wild flowers and addresses the importance of nature reserves in protecting both rare and increasingly scarce plants.
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Scotland contains an interesting and varied flora with many areas of the country such as the Highlands, the mountains and moors of Central Scotland, the Islands of the West and the long and varied coastline remaining relatively wild and unspoilt. Numerous nature reserves serve to protect not just the many rare plants but also those which, although once common, are now becoming scarcer. In an effort to capture the rich diversity of Scottish wild flowers, Mary McMurtrie employs her considerable artistic skills to educate and inform but above all delight her readers with the aid of more than 350 individual watercoloured drawings. The book is not intended as a complete flora of Scottish wild flowers but is, nevertheless, exceedingly representative. It is set out for quick and easy identification, the recognition being made easier because of the use of the author’s original paintings completed from live studies, rather than photographs. This use of individual painting allows the artist to emphasise
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