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Rachy Ramone: Botanist

The Garden Grapevine: for Self-Employed Gardeners

About me

Introduction	I live in South Oxfordshire, and I'm a Professional Gardener, Horticulturalist and Botanist, competent at IDing garden plants, trees and shrubs, and pretty much all of the vascular plants found in woodland settings. Wild flowers, however, were something of a closed book to me, until a couple of years ago, when I started getting interested in them as well. Up to that point, professionally, they were all just "weeds" and to be dealt with in a particular manner. However, I'm now extending my ID skills to include wild flowers. This has meant a whole heap of wandering around lonely fields and hedgerows with a reference book and a hand lens.

Introduction

I live in South Oxfordshire, and I'm a Professional Gardener, Horticulturalist and Botanist, competent at IDing garden plants, trees and shrubs, and pretty much all of the vascular plants found in woodland settings. Wild flowers, however, were something of a closed book to me, until a couple of years ago, when I started getting interested in them as well. Up to that point, professionally, they were all just "weeds" and to be dealt with in a particular manner. However, I'm now extending my ID skills to include wild flowers. This has meant a whole heap of wandering around lonely fields and hedgerows with a reference book and a hand lens.