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Build your wildflower identification skills and learn some Welsh along the way, featuring original photos taken in Pembrokeshire.

About

I’m an English and Welsh botanical writer, researcher and artist, fascinated by plant worlds, histories and lore. I have a BA in Music and Art and an MSc in Sustainability, where my researched explored the concept of ‘decolonising’ British botanic gardens. I want to explore and share the deep and rich connections between humans and plants - with a focus on Wales’s botanical heritage - and strengthen these vital and primal bonds.

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