Maranoa Florilegium Botanic Gardens
Australian Flora Young Adult Non-Fiction Botanical Art Gardening Reference Nature Photography Coffee Table Book Regional Botany Ecological Travel
Margaret Castle’s 2020 hardcover, Maranoa Florilegium Botanic Gardens, is the book Australian plant-lovers have been waiting for: a 223-page visual love-letter to one of Queensland’s most under-celebrated regional botanic collections. Every spread pairs Castle’s crisp botanical photography with concise field notes on the garden’s rare dry-rainforest species, native orchids, and heritage roses, turning what could have been a simple souvenir guide into a serious reference work that still fits beautifully on a coffee table. Because the images are shot in natural light across the seasons, you see each plant at peak flower, fruit and foliage—exactly the detail gardeners, art students and eco-travellers need for accurate ID or painting studies.
Unlike many institutional histories, this title is produced to last: heavy art-grade paper, stitched binding and a laminated boards edition that stands up to repeated library or studio use. The copy offered here is a clean, unmarked example—no inscriptions, no dog-eared corners, just negligible shelf-rub around the spine titling—so it presents as near-new while already out-of-print in hardback. Collectors hunting the first printing will appreciate that 2020 release date; anyone searching for an Australian gift book that is neither generic wildlife nor Sydney-centric will finally find something that celebrates inland Queensland flora in museum-level quality.
For young adults studying QLD biodiversity, adult gardeners planning a native border, or artists wanting accurate regional colour palettes, Maranoa Florilegium delivers authoritative content wrapped in gallery-worthy imagery—an increasingly hard-to-find volume that rarely surfaces in the secondary market in this condition.
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