BOOKS
EXPLORING THE BOTANICAL WORLD
ORCHIDS
Out September 22, 2026
Orchids: Botanical Portraits celebrates one of the largest and most diverse families of flowering plants through Robbie Honey’s detailed photographs. The specimens, photographed in botanical collections, specialist nurseries, and private gardens, reveal the structures, forms, and adaptations that distinguish orchids. Alongside them, narratives follow orchids from the Amazon to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, tracing their origins, histories of discovery, and the botanists, horticulturists, collectors, and growers who have studied and cultivated them. Together, the photographs and stories invite a closer understanding of orchids and the worlds, both natural and human, that surround them
THE ACCIDENTAL BOTANIST
Robbie Honey has spent much of his life looking closely at flowers others walk past. From a roadside verge in Harare to the forests of Langkawi, no flower is overlooked if it has a story worth telling. He deconstructs and photographs their structures, creating botanical portraits that honour the tradition of scientific illustration while bringing a contemporary photographic perspective. The collection features more than 100 flowers and plants, arranged by colour and accompanied by notes on their origins, natural habitats, cultural uses, and the stories that surround them. Together, the portraits and stories reflect Robbie’s particular combination of botany, photography, and close observation.
