Field Guides: yes, still going!

Well, it's been a while since I posted here, but I am still producing Field Guides, and I'm nearly half way through publishing the whole set.

The latest one came out two days ago,

...and as the title would suggest, it's a guide to identifying the various Redwoods that we have in the UK.

I find that their names are so contradictory - if Sequoia is Californian Redwood, then surely Meta-sequoia ought to be Giant Redwood, yes?

No. It's Dawn Redwood, the deciduous one.

Giant Redwood is Sequoiadendron.

With this confusion in mind, I made a Crib for them, and I still have to refer to it every time I look at these trees, as I seem to have a complete blind spot for this family!

Anyway, the book is now out, here's a direct link to it, or you can go to my Author Page and check out the whole list.

As always, these books are FREE to download if you have Amazon Prime or Kindle Unlimited, and it doesn't even matter if you don't have a Kindle, as Amazon kindly provide a free programme ("app") to allow you to download them to your pc, laptop, or other device.

So there you are, no need to ever be confused about Redwoods ever again!

You know you're a Botanist when...

.... you look up how to make an origami Bellflower, you successfully make one:

And then you look at it in dissatifaction and say "but Bellflowers have five petals...."

*sigh*

Note: when I say Bellflower, I mean Campanula.

Free Field Guide this weekend: Poppies

Rather out of season, but I was writing an article on Poppies the other day, which prompted me to finish this Field Guide, which I started last year and never quite got around to publishing.

Everyone knows what a Poppy is, but are you sure it's Papver rhoeas, or is it P. dubium?

And what about Welsh, Horned and Californian? Would you recognise an Opium Poppy if you saw one?

Here it is, then, the answers to all these questions and lots more information about Papaver and "other things called poppies", all in one neat package, for less than the price of a cup of coffee, but FREE this coming weekend.

Amazon work on US time, by the way, so although it is free from midnight on Friday night, in the UK it won't appear to be free until about mid-morning on Saturday, and will continue to be free right over into the small hours of Monday.

And of course if you have Kindle Unlimited, or Amazon Prime, then you can download it for free at any time ("whoopee!"), but if you don't, then hang on until the weekend and get it free then.

If you don't have a Kindle, that's not a problem, Amazon kindly provide a free programme ("app") so you can download it to your own device, and if you don't have a tablet, it still doesn't matter as you can even download it to your PC or laptop.

 As I said last time, if you have any comments on the book, do please email me on rachy.ramone@gmail.com, as I love to hear from people who have used the Cribs, and quite often there are good suggestions which I am very happy to incorporate. Also, if there is a group of plants that you are struggling with, do let me know as there might already be a Crib for them, in which case I will bump it up the publication list: I still have over 30 or so to do, and as I work full time, it is taking me quite a while to get through them all: let's hope for a couple of rainy weeks when I can't get out to work..... *laughs*

Finally, if you like it, do please leave a Review on Amazon, as that will encourage other people to download it.