An intriguing and timely exploration of the importance of Britain and Ireland’s plant life.
Leif Bersweden is a writer, botanist and science communicator with a face-down, bottom-up approach to watching nature. He grew up in rural Wiltshire where he taught himself to identify the local wildlife, focusing on plants from a young age. More recently, Leif completed a genetics PhD at Kew Gardens and his first book, The Orchid Hunter, was published in 2017.