I’ll be talking about my latest book-in-progress GREEN GOLD at Oxford Blackwells on Friday 13th October. Tickets £5.

Great to see one of my photographs selected for the cover of the August issue of Confor’s Forestry & Timber News. Very grateful also to Confor for dedicating a page to promote the crowd-funding campaign in support of my latest book Green Gold.

” . . . he says the only satisfaction you can get out of a fellow of that kind is to come out here and shoot him through the navel with a Mississippi Yangur, nobody will say anything to you; or if there is an investigation it will be brought in justifiable homicide.” So wrote… Read More

The Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi) was discovered by Scottish plant hunter John Jeffrey in northern California in 1852. Jeffrey is the protagonist in my latest book GREEN GOLD.

John Jeffrey , the plant hunter whose story is featured in GREEN GOLD, was first overseen by The Association for the promotion of arboriculture and horticulture of Scotland hosted by Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. It was later renamed the Oregon Botanical Society so it seems fitting that the NPSO is so supportive of the book.