Book cover released for the first book in the Forest Guide series
I’m excited to announce the cover and details for my next book The Forest Guide: Scotland have been released by Bloomsbury WildlifeContinue Reading
I’m excited to announce the cover and details for my next book The Forest Guide: Scotland have been released by Bloomsbury WildlifeContinue Reading
I’ve sponsored a grove of new trees in the Caledonian forest thanks to a brilliant scheme run by Trees for Life. A small gesture but important. Now you can also support the planting of trees.Continue Reading
A visit to Britain’s most northerly natural woodland on the Isle of HoyContinue Reading
The publisher for my next major work of non-fiction The Forest Guide (Scotland) will be Bloomsbury Wildlife.Continue Reading
I’m grateful to THE ROYAL SCOTTISH FORESTRY SOCIETY and reviewer Syd House for the review of Green Gold published this spring.Continue Reading
Last week, I visited Glen Finglas. It was my first visit and I was taken aback by the beauty of this area in The Trossachs National Park in the Highlands of Scotland. Continue Reading
A short film featuring an extract from the launch of GREEN GOLD at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh on 26th April. Continue Reading
I was delighted to have my article about the life of Scottish plant hunter John Jeffrey, and my recently published fictional biography entitled Green Gold, featured in the Spring/Summer edition of Scottish Forestry, the journal of the Royal Scottish Forestry Society. The article highlights the life of Scotsman John Jeffrey,Continue Reading
As part of the research for my book, The New Sylva, I visited recently a remarkable place in Scotland where many so-called exotic coniferous species are not only thriving but are forming a functioning forest ecosystem similar to that found in the Pacific northwest of America. There are …Continue Reading
Day two of our Scottish drawing expedition took us to the southern shore of Loch Rannoch. We were in search of a treescape that would enable us to feature birch and water together. We had a specific place in mind for where the drawing will feature in the book. TheContinue Reading
Yesterday our Scottish Drawing Expedition for The New Sylva got underway. In search of Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) we had travelled to one of the last remaining and best examples of Caledonian Pinewood: the Black Wood of Rannoch, in Central Scotland. High above Loch Rannoch, on an undulating heather-clad ridge,Continue Reading
The authors are very much looking forward to an expedition to Scotland to capture some of the nation’s most spectacular trees and forestscapes. In December we will be spending four days researching and drawing various subjects, including the iconic Caledonian pinewood forests. We will post news and pictures of progressContinue Reading
“In Scotland, by tying the young shoots with bands of hay, they make the stems grow so very close together, as that it encloseth rabbets in warrens instead of pales: And for this robust use we shall prefer the blackthorn; the extravagant suckers which are apt to rise at distanceContinue Reading
England has proportionately the smallest forest area and least state forest resource in Europe yet it is one of the most intensively usedContinue Reading
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