The Gardens of Madeira

Flora & Gardens

With selection notes

Madeira: A Botanical Melting Pot

Susanne Lipps, Oliver Breda

English · 2006 edition

A colour-illustrated botanical pocket guide describing 166 typical plants of Madeira, organised by habitat — gardens and parks, the coast, cultivated land and levadas, the laurisilva forest and the mountains.

Flora & Gardens

Leaves from a Madeira Garden

Charles Thomas-Stanford

English · original edition 1909

The genteel 1909 garden memoir that inspired Tony Powell’s modern homage — Sir Charles Thomas-Stanford’s observations of Madeira’s flora, climate and society from the vantage of his garden.

Flora & Gardens

The Flowers and Gardens of Madeira

Florence Du Cane, Ella Du Cane

English · 2024 edition

A classic Edwardian botanical travelogue, first published in 1909, exploring the gardens, flowers and floral landscapes of Madeira, illustrated with watercolours by Ella Du Cane. Available in modern reprint.

Flora & Gardens

With selection notes

Flora of Madeira

J. R. Press, M. J. Short

English · 2016 edition

Pelagic’s 2016 reprint of the 1994 flora covers more than 1,360 vascular plant species of Madeira and the Salvage Islands, with identification keys, habitat and distribution information and 57 plates of botanical drawings.