Autor/-in: Squire David

David Squire. has a lifetime's experience with plants and bees. He studied botany and gardening at the Hertfordshire College of Horticulture and at RHS Garden Wisley, where he gained the Wisley Diploma in Horticulture. He also was awarded an N. K. Gould Memorial Prize for his collection of herbarium specimens of native British plants. David's passionate interest in native plants ranges from eating and survival to their historical roles in medicine, folklore and customs. Throughout his gardening and journalist career, David has written more than eighty books on plants, gardening and insects, as well as dogs and self-sufficiency, including keeping chickens and honey bees. David's books have been sold in twenty countries and The Scented Garden. won the Garden Writer's of America 'Quill and Trowel' award.