About the Author

Tony Russell Tony is recognised as one of Britain's leading authorities on trees. Over the last few years he has become a familiar face and voice on television and radio, including Roots and Shoots for TV, and presenting a six-part radio programme for Radio 4 on invasive plants. He is currently filming a new TV series, Trees of Britain, which will be screened in 2003. Catherine Cutler is a supervisor in the humid tropics biome at the award winning Eden Project in Cornwall. She was responsible for overseeing the planting, design and development of the biome from its beginnings into a tropical paradise. Her career has taken her as far Malaysia's National Orchid Garden in Kuala Lumpur.