A Passion For Plants

" To be the head of a modern scientific institution with a worldwide reputation, and to combine that work with adventures that can compare with the most daring exploits of the nineteenth century explorers might seem impossible. But that is what Ghillean Prance has achieved and it is a thrilling mixture. " – Sir David Attenborough

Plans have been a consuming passion for Ghillean Prance since his boyhood. In a scientific career dedicated to the quest for and investigation of plants, he has explored the rainforests of the Amazon for over 30 years.

In the early 1970’s, alarmed at the increasing destruction of the rainforest he was one of the first to alert the world to this ecological disaster.  Since then he has championed the care for conservation all over the world and been in charge of the world’s most influential botanical gardens – the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

Superbly filmed on location in Kew Gardens, the Isle of Sky, rural Gloucestershire and the mighty Amazon.