Wildflower Meadows – Margaret Pilkington Finland – plate-shaped ice crystals

Finland – plate-shaped ice crystals floating horizontally in the air act as countless tiny mirrors

Pictured: Ornithogalum dubium (Asparagaceae) – yellow star-of-Bethlehem

• Reveals the hidden beauty of seeds through high-magnification microscopy

with many lost to lions and elephants in the process

Wildflower Meadows – Margaret Pilkington Finland – plate-shaped ice crystalsThis book is a celebration of meadows and their wildflowers. Once common place and familiar to all, not many now remain and their typical flowers are rapidly becoming a folk memory. Stylised meadow flowers, evoking a by gone era of rural idyll and permanent summer sunshine, are used to sell everything from tea towels to china plates and cups. Here we reveal their true beauty with close up photography of flower detail and more distant shots setting