BRENDAN SAYERS has spent most of his career at the National Botanic Gardens, where he oversees the Glasshouse collections and specialises in orchids. Published collaborations include the much-coveted and awarded duo of Ireland’s Wild Orchids and Ireland’s Wild Orchids – A Field Guide. In 2011 he received the H.H. Bloomer Medal from the Linnean Society of London for raising the profile of Irish orchids.