Elsa Pooley

Elsa Pooley has channelled her passion for plants into fields as diverse as botanical research, landscape and garden design, rehabilitation, botanical art, and publishing. The author of best-selling field guides on wildflowers and trees of KwaZulu-Natal and the eastern region, including the Drakensberg and Lesotho, she has received many honours. She conducts specialist botanical tours in southern Africa and runs a small indigenous landscaping and rehabilitation consultancy in KwaZulu-Natal.