Geoff Nichols

Geoff Nichols is an award-winning horticulturist and natural historian, and the author of several books. He has been photographing plants for over 40 years and has been one of the principal contributors to the Flora Publications Trust field guides. He started the first medicinal plant nursery in South Africa and was part of the team that set up the iconic Durban Metropolitan Open Space system. He led the way with ecological management of housing estates from the late 1970s.