Retired horticulturalist with continuing interest in ecological restoration, Asian plants, growing food plants, hiking many plant ecosystems and painting/ drawing plants. My interest has become focussed on plant adaptations to climate change and how the social and ecological relationship with nature can continue. I’m particularly interested in the sacred relationship between nature and culture and how we can share locally and internationally. My interest in Japan is first through plant relationships over many years and more recently through visual arts and language.