ABOUT

On land… is all about the interconnections between art, science, culture and the natural world. As a professional horticulturalist, I’m interested in the physiology and morphology of plants but as a historian I want to know why? And who? And what?

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Having spent over fifteen years teaching horticulture in further and higher education, I would be lying if I didn’t admit that I was, at times, frustrated by the constraints of a syllabus. Horticulture is such a vast subject which often begins with a simple love of plants then dives headlong into the science of growing, the art of plant combinations and the well-being benefits of walking through forests. If you’re as lucky as I am, you might get an opportunity to spend some time studying one aspect you’re really interested in. For me, it was garden and landscape history.

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On land… is really just an excuse to go off at a whole load of different tangents and explore all the other really interesting stuff that’s connected with the land.