Flowers of the West Wales Coast

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Dathliad o fflora arfordirol gorllewin Cymru gan awdur sydd â 50 mlynedd o brofiad mewn cadwraeth natur. Mae wedi'i grwpio'n deuluoedd, gydag enwau Saesneg/Cymraeg/Lladin a gwybodaeth gefndirol fel traddodiadau gwerin, defnydd meddyginiaethol, a ble i'w gweld. Tua 200 o luniau syfrdanol gan yr awdur.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

Celebration of west Wales' coastal flora by an author with 50 years' experience in nature conservation. It is grouped into families, with English/Welsh/Latin names and background information such as folk traditions, medicinal usage, and where to spot them. c.200 breathtaking photos by the author.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

Foreword by Professor John Rodwell Introduction The West Wales Coast The Flowers: Buttercup Family Poppy Family Fumitory Family Goosefoot Pink Family Thrift Family St. John’s Wort Family Mallow Family Violet Family Cabbage Family Mignonette Family Heath Family Primrose Family Loosestrife Family Stonecrop Family Rose Family Meadowsweet and Cinquefoils Hawthorn and Blackthorn Pea Family Clovers Rest-harrow Greenweed, Gorse and Broom Willowherb Family Spurge Family Carrot Family Sea Holly and Rock Samphire Gentian Family Nightshade Family Bindweed Family Borage Family Dead-nettle Family Figwort Family Broomrape Family Plantain Family Bellflower Family Bedstraw Family Honeysuckle Family Teasel Family Daisy Family Ragwort, Golden Samphire and Goldenrod Carline Thistle Knapweed Thistles Dandelions and Dandelion-like flowers Asparagus Family Ramsons Orchid Family

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

During the 1970s and 1980s, Mike Alexander spent ten years as Warden of Skomer, and he eventually became Chair of both the Wildlife Trust South and West Wales and the Pembrokeshire Islands Advisory Committee. He also worked for the Countryside Council for Wales, where his responsibilities included the management of the series of National Nature Reserves in Wales, a position he held for over twenty years. He was one of the founders, and later the Chair, of Pori Natur a Threftadaeth (PONT), an organisation established to build essential bridges between nature conservation and farmers in Wales. For several decades, he was at the forefront of developing management planning for nature conservation, initially working with the main conservation organisations in Britain. Soon his work gained an international reputation and he became involved with countries as diverse as Costa Rica, Uganda, India, the Netherlands and Estonia. His book Management Planning for Nature Conservation (Springer, 2013) has become the standard international textbook on the subject and is now in its second edition. He was an honorary lecturer in the School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, where he was involved in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching for almost thirty years, and was elected a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, and the Royal Society of Biology. He was also a very accomplished photographer, with his work appearing regularly in books and magazines such as 'BBC Countryfile'. He is the author of the acclaimed 'Skomer Island'.