I, Buxus
Tomasz Aniśko
Wydawca: Landszaft
Rok: 2025
Wydanie: I
Oprawa: twarda z obwolutą
Liczba stron: 200
Format: 197 x 252 mm
ISBN: 978-83-970206-1-0
While the elusive Tree of Life has garnered attention throughout history, the Tree of Afterlife tells her story for the first time in this book. Spanning eons and linking distant lands from Iran to Portugal, the cultural history of boxwood, Buxus sempervirens, unveils a fascinating portrait of the world’s perhaps most humble tree.
Narrated from the perspective of Buxus, the she-tree, this book invites readers on a whirlwind journey through time. Neanderthal tools, Neolithic charcoal, Sumerian clay tablets, Hittite myths, Egyptian furniture, Phoenician shipwrecks, Assyrian palaces, Greek amphoras, Etruscan graves, Roman marbles, Pompeian frescos, English poems, Serbian ballads, and contemporary gardens and cemeteries worldwide, all bear witness of boxwood’s intimate relationship with humanity.
The book gathers these widely scattered shards of history and arranges them to reconstruct the image of the tree that lives today in plain sight, common yet overlooked and deeply misunderstood.
Author’s fifty-four photographs accompany the text, depicting the diverse contexts in which boxwood can be encountered in the modern world, in urban, rural, and natural settings.
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Dr. Tomasz Aniśko holds an M.S. in Horticulture from Poznań University of Life Sciences and a Ph.D. in Horticulture from the University of Georgia. He has curated plant collections at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania and taught collection management courses at the University of Delaware. Dr. Aniśko has led plant exploration expeditions across Asia, Australia, Europe, and South America. His expeditions to Azerbaijan, Georgia, Greece, North Macedonia, Russia, and Ukraine focused on collecting boxwood. In his native Poland, he has practiced landscape architecture in collaboration with Anna Aniśko and has served as a member of parliament. Dr. Aniśko is the author of several books, including Plant Exploration for Longwood Gardens, When Perennials Bloom, and Victoria: The Seductress.
