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Blooming Marvellous
Manx Wildflowers – A Botanical Journey
By Rosemary Greening
Well-known artist, Rosemary Greening, lives and works on the Isle of Man. The island has a huge variety of habitat for such a relatively small area, and therefore has an amazing array of trees and plants. Rosemary’s paintings encompass flora from the tiny wood sorrel to the soaring majestic oak and from plants which can be found almost everywhere to those restricted to one small area.
Her deep love for the island’s plantlife, and her support for the protection of the natural world led her to become involved in the Manx Wildlife Trust’s project to agree a list of trees native to the island. From trying to understand what counts as a native species and how it got here arose the idea for this book.
As well as providing an artistic record Rosemary also explains how the plants fit into their surroundings, and describes some of the ways they are interwoven with the stories of our ancestors and the wonderful places plants grow across the island.
Welcome to Loaghtan Books
– publishers of Isle of Man books –
As a reader have you ever felt that the books you really want to own are just too expensive?
So did we!
To rectify that we at Loaghtan Books keep our prices as low as possible and the quality of our books as high as we can.
We are a small but growing independent publishing house publishing books about the Isle of Man, the UK and other parts of the world. In fact the sort of books we want to read but can’t find elsewhere.
We don’t restrict ourselves to specialising in certain subjects, preferring to base our books on what readers tell us interest them. Whatever the subject each publication is researched thoroughly and imaginatively illustrated. Our books aim equally at education, illumination and entertainment or, to put it another way, learning and fun.
Some of our books are based on unique historic material; manuscripts and photographs not previously published to which we have added commentary so that our readers can understand allusions in the text not obvious to modern eyes.
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