Growing up in Wiltshire, my interest in wild flowers as a child was originally sparked at least partly by economics, identifying correctly the edible wild greens I collected to feed our pet rabbits, when a combination of poor grain harvests and the oil crisis meant the price of feed doubled within weeks. A gift of Kemble Martin’s The Concise British Flora at the age of 11 meant I learned my plants equally by Latin and English names in families, something which has proved invaluable in later life, although the recent new classifications are proving harder to unlearn the old ones!