Peter Stroh – Mark Avery

Sunday book review – The Cuckoo Calls the Year by Peter Stroh

Mark May 4, 2025March 28, 2026 Comments Off

The author is a proper botanist (see my review of a very different earlier book he co-authored) and he doesn’t live very far away from me – down the Nene Valley in a place where it is probably mostly called the ‘Neen’ whereas up here we call it the ‘Nenn’ but I have never…

Sunday book review – Grassland plants of the British and Irish lowlands by Peter Stroh et al.

Mark November 3, 2019March 28, 2026 18 Comments

I’m no botanist, so for all I know this book could be riddled with awful errors, but it is a lovely, lovely book. In a 400-page book, 300 of the pages are given over to about 100 species accounts; each with a distribution map, a photograph of the species, a photograph of the habitat and…