Leaf through a breathtaking botanical book

Author and broadcaster Sarah Raven at The Watermill book club

BROADCASTER, teacher and writer Sarah Raven returns to The Watermill Book Club to be interviewed by Ian Willox on her new book on wild flowers next Wednesday (16) at 1.30pm

Inspired by childhood excursions with her botanist father, Sarah has travelled the length and breadth of the British Isles to find 500 of our most breathtakingly beautiful wild flowers.

In this illustrated talk, she introduces a wide range of wild plants, telling you their names and something about them – how to identify the families, how they're brilliantly adapted to their environment, their importance to animals and insects, what herbal remedies they can be used for, the story behind their common names and the part they play in local history. This is a rare opportunity to hear about many native wild plants that we take so much for granted.

Sarah has made regular appearances on Gardeners' World, the BBC's flagship gardening programme, runs her own cookery and gardening school at Perch Hill in East Sussex and she is the author of Sarah Raven's Food for Family and Friends, The Cutting Garden, Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook (which was the Guild of Food Writers Cookery Book of the Year 2008) and Sarah Raven's Complete Christmas.

For tickets (£5), telephone the box office on 01635 46044 or visit www.watermill.org.uk

Lunch is available from noon, to book please call the box office.