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The flowers, the laurisilva forest and the gardens of the island of eternal spring.
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.
The first comprehensive flora to describe all vascular plants of the Madeiran and Salvage Islands — over 1,360 species — with descriptions, identification keys, habitat and distribution data and 57 illustrated plates.
A reprint of the classic 19th-century botanical flora by naturalist Richard Thomas Lowe, describing the plants of Madeira together with Porto Santo and the Desertas — a foundational historical reference.
A richly illustrated photographic field guide to around 400 wild and cultivated plants of Madeira — one species per page with flowering season, height, origin, family and altitude. A long-running island favourite with multilingual text.
An accessible photographic guide to the flowers of Madeira by botanist Roberto Jardim of the island’s Botanical Garden — a popular introduction to Madeira’s distinctive flowering plants.
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.
The first comprehensive pictorial flora of Madeira — over 1,200 ferns and flowering plants in 1,450+ colour photographs, including almost all ~160 endemic taxa, with habitat and distribution. A 789-page botanical reference (German text).
An authoritative illustrated survey of around 30 gardens across Madeira by garden designer Gerald Luckhurst, tracing the island’s garden history and the role of Portuguese aristocrats and British wine merchants in creating its quintas.
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.
A multilingual photographic reference documenting the roughly 165 endemic vascular plant taxa exclusive to the Madeira archipelago and the Selvagens Islands.