Gonçalo Santos is a 27-year-old chemist and amateur botanist from Portugal. His passion for plants started in 2014 when he created a garden from wasteland around his apartment block. It now counts over 500 native species and is enjoyed by all his neighbours! He is living in Dublin since 2018 and since then has been recording Irish wildflowers.

Recommended books

A field guide to the Orchids of Europe and the Mediterranean
By: Rolf Kuhn, Henrik Pedersen and Phillip Cribb

Collins Wild Flower Guide
By: Davide Streeter, C. Hart-Davies, A Hardcastle F. Cole and L. Harper

Ireland's Wild Orchids
By: Brendan Sayers and Susan Sex

Wild Plants of the Burren and the Aran Islands
By: Charles Nelson

Contact Goncalo at:

blog: http://somethingintheyard.blogspot.com/
Instagram (id: somethingintheyard): https://www.instagram.com/somethingintheyard/?hl=pt
Twitter: @goncalosbotany
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Goncalo_Santos6
Linkdin: www.linkedin.com/in/gonçalo-lab-santos

Contact Mary at
mary@burrennaturesanctuary.ie