Flowers of the Silk Road

Finally we can announce the arrival of our book! We're sorry for the long silence but we wanted to know just when the book was g...

Alas, my tour schedule and finalizing everything related to the book finally clashed and I won't have time to review the final proofs u...

Despite centuries of plant hunting and botanical science many new are plants are still being described and I’m sure many of us would l...

First of all sorry for nothing appearing here for a long while, but we’re now delighted to announce that we have finally signed a contract...

Admittedly we’ve been a bit quiet on the blogging front of late but hopefully things will soon pick up again.   Hopefully we now have a pu...

This was my fourth visit to southern Chile and floristically the best so far with good rains in the drier northern deserts and amazing wea...