Author: Dilger, Mike

United Kingdom, Great Britain

Published on 28 March 2024 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Bloomsbury Wildlife) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 304 pages, 17 plant illustrations; 8 page colour section with plant photos; 1 map
198 x 129 | 0g

A cracking read. IOLO WILLIAMSWhat an incredible achievement! ALISON STEADMANAn inspirational odyssey. NICK BAKER’Immediately accessible.’ BBC COUNTRYFILE-Mike Dilger’s nationwide quest to find 1,000 wild plant species in a single year.

For most of 2020, Mike Dilgers day-job of travelling to the four corners of the British Isles all but disappeared. Having been confined to one place by the Covid pandemic, and with daily dog walks his sole permitted outdoor pursuit, the simple pleasure of getting to know the flowers at his feet reignited a long-buried botanical passion. Now Mike is on a mission: to see a thousand different wild plants in on