Wildflowers for All Seasons

by Anna Vojtech

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517570076
• ISBN13: 9780517570074
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.59 lbs.

Customer Reviews

LUSCIOUS BOOK

An absolute must for the naturalist and artist both. Comprehensive descriptions tell you everything germane about each of dozens of those "weeds" you think you know and will learn to love. The full color full page illustrations of every single plant are knockouts!

What a gorgeous book!

Having been totally enthralled by an exhibit of Anna Vojtech's paintings at an art gallery I visited back east, I was excited to learn that she had published this book of reproductions of her work. My husband is an amateur naturalist, and when I told him about the book he was eager to see it because of Ghillean Prance, a famous botanist and extremely interesting writer. So we ordered it.This book is amazing! The reproductions are so beautiful and rich, and a few of the plants are portrayed in more than one season, so you can see the changes they go through as the seasons progress. The colors are perfect and you practically feel like you're sitting there in the woods with the artist while she paints a lily or trillium. The detail of the paintings (and even more so when you see them in person in a gallery!) is remarkable, intricate, highly skilled -- she's just a really gifted watercolor artist!Ghillean Prance writes just the sort of text that makes these pictures feel so alive. He discusses some cultural or medicinal uses of the plants, or some folklore behind them, or something else really interesting that comes as a revelation. Dr. Prance is so knowledgable, he makes me want to become a naturalist.Highly recommended for naturalists, gardeners, art enthusiasts, people interested in plant folklore, and anyone who just enjoys flowers.