Trevor Dines, a farmer's son from Hampshire, co-authored the New Atlas of the British and Irish Flora, mapping every native and naturalised plant in these islands. A campaigner for better management of road verges and lawns and the creation of wildflower meadows, he appears regularly on the Radio 4 Today programme, BBC Breakfast and Countryfile. Trevor also presented Channel 4's Wild Things and wrote the accompanying book The Wild Things Guide to the Changing Plant Life of the British Isles.
Preface
Part One: Setting the urban scene
1. Introduction
2. A brief history of our urban plants
3. Urban botany today
Part Two: The roots of urban botany
4. Origin of urban plants
5. The physical urban environment
6. Creation of the urban flora
Part Three: A walk through the streets
7. Pavements
8. Walls
9. Urban fallow: waste ground and derelict land
10. The grassy bits
11. Street trees
Part Four: Final thoughts
12. The future of urban plants
Further study
Glossary
References
Illustration credits
Acknowledgements
Index
