Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees
A beautifully produced and photographed new book. I highly recommend this book to anyone who would like to know more about this fascinating group of plants both in the wild or in your backyard.(Mary Beth BreckenridgeAkron Beacon Journal)Filled with arresting close-ups.(Kathy PurdyThe Cleveland Plain Dealer)You’ll be dazzled.(Kathy ZarskyAlbemarle)Seeing Treesopens our eyes to a tree's shy magnificence and invites us to deepen our relationship with these earthly treasures. (Sandy HausmanAlbemarle)Seeing Treesopens our eyes to a tree’s shy magnificence and invites us to deepen our relationship with these earthly treasures.(Jim ChatfieldReader's Digest)“Vivid, fascinating botanical biographies.”(Dominique BrowningOutdoor Photographer)"The resulting images are full of detail.”(Mary Ellen SnodgrassDanger Garden Blog)“A whole new world of tree mystery has opened up.”(Cold Climate Gardening.com)“If you love trees, or if you love good photography, you willlovethis book.”(Botanical Art Painting)“A new exciting book.”(Holos Collaborative)“Gorgeous images & observations.” (A Charlotte Garden.com)“You will begin to appreciate trees in a whole new way.”(Book News)"Hugo writes with real passion about trees, describing their qualities, flowers, fruits, barks, and unique characteristics, and including her own observations and experiments with cuttings and seedlings. She is articulate and enthusiastic, making this an ideal volume for beginning observers of trees."(Library Journal)“This fascinating celebration of trees will delight gardeners, botanists, students of natural history, and nature photographers.”(Seattle Times)“The book to change us all into unabashed tree worshippers.”(Philadelphia Inquirer)“A splendid book.”(PatientGardener.com)"The only way I can describe my reaction to receivingSeeing Treeswas like a child being taken into a sweet shop.”(CommonWeeder.com)“A beautiful and exciting book.”(Reference and Research Book News)“Hugo writes with real passion about trees…. Beautifully produced and fascinating to read.”(Horticulture Magazine)“A botanical masterpiece.”(WVTV)“Filled with surprises.”(Beacon Journal)“Their call to seeing what nature offers is magical and the photographs are works of art.”(North Coast Gardening)"This seems like the sort of book which sprinkles a bit of fairy dust on something we see everyday, so that just taking a walk or stepping outside feels magical and fresh."(Red Dirt Ramblings)“If you love books and nature, this is one to own for reference and to ponder during the long winter months.”(MyHortus.com)“A captivating book.”(UnderMyAppleTree.com)“A gorgeous book, a great reference and a beautiful addition to the nature lover’s bookshelf.”(WeatherProofingYourLandscape.com)“Will take your breath away.”(New York Times)“My favorite new book this season isSeeing Trees…This book is made for us nearsighted gardeners, who long ago learned the thrill of peering at plants.”(Chicago Tribune)“You can't help but be bowled over by the beauty at play in the science.”(Washington Post)“The authors have brought the level of observation to new heights.”(Houston Chronicle) “Through [Llewellyn’s] lens we take flight with a red maple’s charming helicopterlike seed pods and can almost feel the smooth, muscular, steel-gray bark of an ironwood.”(San Francisco Chronicle)“Llewellyn’s extraordinarily crisp photographs alone force the reader to consider trees differently, if only because there are so few illustrations of entire trees, trunk, crown and all.”(American Reference Books Annual)"An idiosyncratic portrait of common trees and their life span, Hugo’s book introduces aspects of tree culture that delight and bemuse."