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Gabriel Hemery & Sarah Simblet.
Originally published in 2014, this new 2021 edition of The New Sylva is in a slightly smaller hardback format and half the price, but equally beautiful. This edition comes with illustrated endpapers and a ribbon marker.
"Beautiful, useful, inspirational" BBC Wildlife Book of the Month
"A delight on every page" Evening Standard
All copies purchased from Sylva Foundation will be personally signed by author Gabrel Hemery (our CEO), with all proceeds to the charity.
Note that the shrink wrapping, in which the books are supplied by the publishers, will be removed to permit signing.
Please allow up to two weeks for delivery.
The Sylva Wood Centre offers short courses in woodworking, forestry and rural management, outdoor learning and other subjects.
These courses are held by experts in their field using the specialist facilities of the Wood Centre in Oxfordshire which is set in an attractive landscape including a young forest, outdoor education area and community orchard.
Gift vouchers can be redeemed by the recipient in part payment for any advertised course and makes the perfect gift for Christmas, birthdays or special occasions.
The New Sylva by Gabriel Hemery and Sarah Simblet - published to wide acclaim by Bloomsbury in 2014 - contains 200 stunning pen and ink drawings, including whole-tree portraits, botanical parts and forest scenes. They were drawn by internationally-renowned artist Sarah Simblet while she was artist-in-residence for environmental charity the Sylva Foundation. Just 14 remain available for sale.
Sarah Simblet rarely sells her work as prints. This represents a unique investment and a special opportunity for fans of her stunning drawings. Each print will be signed by Sarah Simblet, and accompanied by an attractive Certificate of Authenticity, signed by both authors of The New Sylva.
| book page | name | size (mm) (w×h) | caption | image | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60 | Female Norway spruce cones | 250×290 | Female cones of Norway spruce grow to fifteen centimetres long and become pale brown and distinctively pendent as they mature, often visible below the upward-sweeping boughs. Female cones grow high up in a tree's canopy, while males occur on the lowest branches to minimise self-pollination. This stem was collected by an arborist who climbed to the top of a tree at Westonbirt Arboretum in Gloucestershire. |  |
£80 | |
| 71 | Macedonian pine seedling & cone | 200×240 | Two-year-old Macedonian pine seedling found growing on a steep slope at Brechfa Forest Gardens in Carmarthenshire. Bottom right: Mature female cone from a nearby parent tree. |  |
£80 | |
| 112 | Spindle leaves & fruits | 500×270 | Spindle grows opposite pairs of elliptic leaves, which frame their green-white, fourpetalled flowers in spring. Pod-like fruits, formed of four or five valves, can be seen developing along this branch. Pale green at first, they will turn red-pink in autumn and split open to reveal bright orange seeds. Fruits remain after leaf fall and can form a prized feature in festive wreaths. |  |
£125 | |
| 174 | Purging buckthorn branch & fruits | 550×260 | Twigs, branches and leaves of purging buckthorn are opposite, although sometimes slightly out of step. Its glossy leaves are ovate with a short point, and have a distinctive pattern of long arching veins that appear to meet at the tip. This aids in recognising the species, although dogwood displays a similar pattern (see pp.262–3). The small and pale green flowers of purging buckthorn appear in spring, followed by generous clusters of glossy black fruits. |  |
£125 | |
| 181 | Elm bark beetle gallery | 80×240 | The undersurface of bark from a dead English elm tree shows the gallery of channels made by numerous larvae of the elm bark beetle (Scolytus scolytus) eating their way outwards from the central line where their adult parent deposited its eggs. [ 1 ] Gallery. [ 2 ] Life-size larva. [ 3 ] Life-size adult beetles. [ 4 ] Enlarged drawing of larva. [ 5 ] Enlarged drawings of adult beetles. |  |
£60 | |
| 238 | Walnut leaves & male catkins | 450×270 | Common walnut has large pinnate leaves with five to nine leaflets. Male and female flowers are produced on the same tree. Spherical females have pairs of feathered stigmas protruding from their tips and are produced on new spring shoots. |  |
£100 | |
| 256 | Horse chestnut foliage & flowers | 490×320 | Above: A stem displays crescent-shaped and dotted leaf scars where old leaf vessels were once connected. Its large leaves surround a vertical raceme of white flowers that blush red after pollination. Right: On flushing, the glossy, sticky bud scales of horse chestnut peel back into a rosette as new shoots emerge, covered in thick fur. |  |
£100 | |
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