A bibliography 1974 - 2006
BOOKS
Wendy F. Walsh, Ruth Isobel Ross & E. Charles Nelson. An Irish florilegium; the wild and gardens flowers of Ireland. 1983 [out of print]. London: Thames and Hudson. (48 watercolours by Wendy Walsh; introduction by R. I. Ross).
E. Charles Nelson & Wendy F. Walsh. An Irish flower garden. The histories of some of our garden plants. 1984 [new edition 1997, see below]. Kilkenny: Boethius Press. (Illustrations by Wendy Walsh).
E. Charles Nelson & Eileen M. McCracken. The brightest jewel: a history of the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin. 1987 [out of print]. Kilkenny: Boethius Press. (4 illustrations by Wendy Walsh).
Raymond Piper & E. Charles Nelson. Piper's flowers. 1987 [out of print]. Belfast: Blackstaff Press. (10 watercolours by R. Piper).
Wendy F. Walsh & E. Charles Nelson. An Irish florilegium II; the wild and gardens flowers of Ireland. 1988 [out of print]. London: Thames and Hudson. (48 watercolours by Wendy Walsh).
Wendy F. Walsh & E. Charles Nelson. A prospect of Irish flowers. 1990 [out of print]. Belfast: Blackstaff Press. (10 watercolours by Wendy Walsh).
E. Charles Nelson. Shamrock: botany and history of an Irish myth. 1991. Aberystwyth: Boethius Press. (1 illustration by Wendy Walsh).
E. Charles Nelson & Wendy F. Walsh. The Burren: a companion to the wildflowers of an Irish limestone wilderness. 1991 [out of print]. Aberystwyth & Ennis: Boethius Press & The Conservancy of The Burren. (Illustrations by Wendy Walsh). 1997 [Reprint with amendments]. Dublin: Samton Ltd for The Conservancy of The Burren.
E. Charles Nelson & Wendy F. Walsh. Trees of Ireland, native and naturalized. 1993 [out of print]. Dublin: The Lilliput Press. (31 watercolours by Wendy Walsh).
E. Charles Nelson & Evelyn Deane. 'Glory of Donard' - a history of the Slieve Donard Nursery, Newcastle, County Down, with a catalogue of cultivars. 1993 [out of print]. Belfast: Northern Ireland Heritage Gardens Committee. (Edited with Evelyn Deane; text by E. C. Nelson).
E. Charles Nelson & Alan Probert. A man who can speak of plants: Dr Thomas Coulter (1793‑1843) of Dundalk in Ireland, Mexico and Alta California. 1994. Dublin: published privately by E. C. Nelson. (Frontispiece, Pinus coulteri, by Wendy Walsh).
E. Charles Nelson & Wendy F. Walsh. The flowers of Mayo. Dr Patrick Browne's Fasciculus plantarum Hiberniae (1788). 1995 [out of print]. Dublin: Éamonn de Búrca for Edmund Burke Publisher. (Illustrations by Wendy Walsh).
E. Charles Nelson. The cause of the calamity. Potato blight in Ireland, 1845-1847, and the role of the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. 1995. The Stationery Office, Dublin. [A revised, illustrated edition of 'David Moore and the Reverend Miles J. Berkeley, and the scientific study of the potato blight in Ireland 1845-1847', Archives of Natural History 11: 249-261.]
E. Charles Nelson & Wendy F. Walsh. An Irish flower garden replanted. The histories of some of our garden plants. 1997 [out of print. Revised edition (originally published 1984)]. Castlebourke: Éamonn de Búrca for Edmund Burke Publisher. (Illustrations by Wendy Walsh).
E. Charles Nelson & Alan Grills. Daisy Hill Nursery, Newry. A history of 'the most interesting nursery probably in the World'. 1998. Belfast: Northern Ireland Heritage Gardens Committee. (1 illustration by Wendy Walsh).
E. Charles Nelson. Wild plants of The Burren and The Aran Islands. A simple souvenir guide to the flowers and ferns. 1999. Cork: The Collins Press. (Illustrated with colour photographs by E. C. Nelson).
E. Charles Nelson. Sea beans and nickar nuts. A handbook of exotic seeds and fruits stranded on beaches in north‑western Europe. 2000. London: BSBI. (Illustrations by Wendy Walsh (in Chinese ink), Alma Hathway and Bernie Shine (in pen‑and‑ink)).
E. Charles Nelson. A heritage of beauty. The garden plants of Ireland. An illustrated encyclopaedia. 2000. Dublin: Irish Garden Plant Society. (Includes illustrations by Wendy Walsh).
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REFERENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2001 |
E. Charles Nelson. An annotated topographical checklist of the flowering plants, conifers, ferns & fern allies of The Burren Region. 2000. Outwell: the author in association with The Burren Tourism & Environment Initiative.
E. Charles Nelson. Wild plants of Connemara and West Mayo. A souvenir and simple pocket guide to the flowers and ferns illustrated with colour photographs. 2001. Dublin: Strawberry Tree.
E. Charles Nelson. Wild plants of south-western Ireland Kerry West Cork and Limerick. A souvenir and simple pocket guide to the flowers and ferns illustrated with colour photographs. 2001. Dublin: Strawberry Tree.
E. Charles Nelson et alii. The virtues of herbs of Master Jon Gardener. 2002. Dublin: Strawberry Tree. 2002.(Illustrations by Deborah Lambkin, Daphne Levinge, Frances Poskitt, Raymond Piper, Susan Sex and Wendy Walsh.)
E. Charles Nelson & Brendan Sayers. Orchids at Glasnevin: an illustrated history of orchids in Ireland's National Botanic Gardens. 2003. Dublin: Strawberry Tree. (Illustrations by Lydia Shackleton, Raymond Piper, Susan Sex and Wendy Walsh.)
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