Dave Pepler’s love for nature goes back to his childhood when his grandfather, Boy le Roux, pushed him along in a wheelbarrow on veld excursions.

Pepler’s homage to botanical richness focuses on indigenous plants. Each one is brought to life by a nostalgic anecdote and explored in lyrical, imaginative prose – to inform, entertain and enchant. Pepler draws links between nature, his past and the realms of history and the sciences.

This captivating collection contains 25 stories, some of which have appeared in the lifestyle magazine Visi, while others were written especially for the book.

Forever Green is

• A beautiful coffee table book (photographs by artist Lien Botha)
• A practical guide (tips and advice by veteran journalist and garden fundi, Laurian Brown)
• A meditation on plants and nature.

DAVE PEPLER is one of South Africa’s best-known environmentalists. He was among the celebrities endorsing the recent Earth Hour awareness campaign and he presents the environmental program Groen on the TV channel kykNET. He is in the first instance a respected scientist and academic with an M.Phil in zoology from Cambridge. In 2007, he received the Steve Hamilton Award for his exceptional contribution to the field of zoology. Pepler is also a very popular professor at Stellenbosch University. But above all, he is a raconteur, a lover of stories and plants, and a man with soul.