#RebelBotanists

We exist to educate and raise awareness of the beautiful and valuable wildplants at your feet: in pavement cracks, on grass verges and in urban parks. We highlight their important connection to ecology, the biodiversity of life that depends on them, which is all around us and enables our very existence.

Our methods are unconventional and rebellious, using a Banksy-esque street art approach to name the flora we find; however, the outcome is not of confrontation but of curiosity and engagement.

Curiosity is the first step towards learning for all ages, and by using chalk as our medium, it is not only a natural (calcium carbonate) material, but it washes away in the rain, which means we have to go out and do it again, and again! The pavements become a new and evolving canvas; just as the seasons change, so do our chalkings.

We are not qualified botanists, we are rebel botanists, learning more and more ourselves and sharing it with everyone who sees it. We are passionate about plants and believe in free education, so please join us, follow us:

• learn and love nature,
• care and respect nature
• and have fun doing it!

Thank you to POP for kindly funding this website and other materials to further our work.

Grateful thanks to the Green Minds Project and particularly Liz, Jemma, Eva and Bex of Plymouth City Council for believing in our work and giving us continued support and funding for developing Houndiscombe Park.

Thanks to Johnny, the BBC journalist, who first recognised the importance of our work and created this fabulous video

Thank you to Jenny at Art and Energy and the Eco-Pop Collective for their continued support.

Thank you to the inspiration of Chris Packham, Megan McCubbin and the many contributors at the The Self-Isolating Bird Club during the lockdown of 2020: https://theselfisolatingbird.club