I am 60 years old and enjoy walking, cycling the outdoor life and natural history. I have for many years been recording what wild flowers grow where. This was until comparatively recently confined to the British Flora. This changed in 2004 when i started going on holiday to my sisters house in Maro near Nerja in Andalusia. Here was hugely rich and diverse flora for me to try and get to grips with. A few where familiar plants from my homeland, some i could assign to a family while many others where completely unfamiliar. It very quickly became apparent that there was no comprehensive illustrated local flora. At this point i purchased a digital camera which was fantastic for making a record of what i had seen. This allowed me to be able to do much of the identification in front of a computer back in England using the ever expanding Internet.