The Sakura Obsession by Naoko Abe

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/90028 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Sakura Obsession Author: Naoko Abe Narrator: Ellen Archer, Nicholas Guy Smith Format: mp3 Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins Release date: 03-19-19 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 35 ratings Genres: Environmentalists & Naturalists Publisher's Summary: Collingwood Ingram - known as “Cherry” for his defining passion - was born in 1880 and lived until he was a hundred, witnessing a fraught century of conflict and change. Visiting Japan in 1902 and again in 1907, he fell in love with the country’s distinctive cherry blossoms, or sakura, and brought back hundreds of cuttings with him to England, where he created a garden of cherry varieties. On a 1926 trip to Japan to search for new specimens, Ingram was shocked to find a dramatic decline in local cherry diversity.