Books for houseplant owners
For someone with a windowsill full of plants, start with a book they will use. Nature Style goes room by room through choosing, styling and caring for houseplants, and Outside In photographs twenty homes around the world that build nature into their design. Plant Names Simplified explains what botanical Latin means and how to say it, which helps when reading plant labels.
The Houseplant Care Cards are a boxed set with a card for each common houseplant, plus cards on the basics such as watering, light and repotting. They make a useful add-on to a plant from our easy care houseplants.
Plant history, folklore and Kew titles
For readers who like the stories behind plants, Remarkable Plants covers the crops, spices and medicines that changed the world, and Remarkable Trees is written by Kew's Christina Harrison and Tony Kirkham. Witch's Garden looks at plants of folklore and traditional medicine, and The Secret Language of Plants traces plant symbolism through art.
The Orchid Outlaw is Ben Jacob's account of his mission to save Britain's rarest flowers. More books and gifts from Kew are in our Kew Gardens collection.
Jigsaw puzzles and gifts for children
Both 1000 piece jigsaws come with a poster guide to the plants in the picture. Around the World in 50 Plants is based on Jonathan Drori's book and finishes at 48.5 x 68cm, and Around the World in 50 Orchids includes the bee orchid, the moon orchid and the dancing lady orchid. For an orchid fan, add a plant from our orchid collection.
For younger readers, The Big Book of Blooms is written for children aged roughly 5 to 8, and A Plant Lover's Sticker Book has hundreds of hand-painted plant stickers for journals and cards. It goes well with our plant stationery.
