Floral Images - Links

Organisations

Botany

Botanical Society of the British Isles (Authoritative - their database is invaluable)

Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

The Wild Flower Society

Dave's Garden Botanary

Bristol University Botanic Garden

Someone else who has helped me greatly- particularly with my Burren howlers is Dr Charles Nelson.

Kew Botanical Gardens

A very interesting site from a real botanist (The pictures of developing Mistletoe alone making the site visit worthwhile.)

Countryside Council for Wales

Moonwort madness

Natural England (English Nature as was).

The Postcode Plant Database (ie UK post codes !)

The Wildlife Trusts (find your local trust here).

Donegal Wildlife project run by Stuart Dunlop

Other sites like FloralImages

The Sinfield Nature Conservation Trust

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK) (Excellent resource)

Guest contributors' sites

British Wild Flowers (Again - excellent)

Pet Protraits

Wild plants of the British Isles

A photo flora of the Devon and Cornwall peninsula (David has helped me a lot with FloralImages - and his close-up flower pictures are superb.)

A great photo site with flora and fauna and much more

Gardens and gardening

"An enthusiasts guide to the flora and fauna of the UK".

An English Country Garden

Wild and cultivated flowers and fungi, photographs for sale.

Graham's Hardy Plants - great pictures of some choice varieties grown well.

Superb "art" flower pictures for sale at NickLayton.com

"My Garden" represents a wide range of rare and unusual plants in a small private garden in Wales. Well worth an e-visit

English Wild Flower Photographs. Pictures of wildflowers taken around the Chiltern's woods and fields.

Irish Wild Flowers - comprehensive coverage.

The Garden, Gardening and Garden Leisure Information Reference Service

France, Spain and the Pyrenees

Excellent pictures of wild flowers in western France (The Havre river in the Loire valley near Nantes)

More Pyrenees

Quelques Fleurs des Pyrenees - say no more.

Flore en ligne - a French site where the pictures speak for themselves.

Flowers of Spain - very comprehensive

Flowers to see on Topwalks in Spain

Further afield

A far-eastern gallery.

The Digital Flora of Texas - very comprehensive and many plants found elsewhere in the world.

Les Fleurs Sauvages d'Acadie, flowers of Eastern Canada.

Sales

Misc

Rare bulb sales (UK)

A blog from the other end of the Mendips - with pictures and botanical reports.

A wildflower specialist seed supplier in Ireland.

The real fungi experts

Easy Tropicals (some of which I grow)

For farmers

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