Fantasy. Female forest botanist in cabin/ lab meditates, communes with Green Man. Her teenage son Robin lives in world with overgrown cities. Read in 1990s. Spoiler ahead.

[Hazel]

The book begins with a lone female forest botanist in a cabin/lab, researching tree growth somehow. She meditates under a tree. I learned the genus names for Oak and Maple from this book, so either she was making labels or the words were in an illustrated endpaper. Her meditation ends up communing with a Green Man, and I think that's where her story ends, although it may be she's impregnated here, possibly raising a small boy. His name is Robin.

The rest of the book is set some amount of time later. Robin is a teenager, though mostly off screen, and The Forest and/or foliage generally has gone into overdrive. Cities are getting overgrown while you watch, and Civilization is in danger? Something about cro-genetics of plants, so they are artificially evolving. The spoiler is that it's Robin's grief that his mom's died?

Main character is a teen/new-adult, I think she's raised on a wind farm, I remember a tall modern windmill. Maybe she moves away in the fight against the forest, and anyway she eventually meets Robin and solves the problem.

[Hazel]

I forgot to mention, i'm pretty sure I read it during the 1990s, could have been published late 80s.

[Rainbowheart]

Do you think the book was intended for teens or adults?

[Hazel]

Unfortunately I don't remember.

[Rainbowheart]

Is '99 the latest possible date you read it?

[Kris]

Lisa, I added plot details to the topic header for clarification. Feel free to update it.

[Rainbowheart]

Just to make sure I understand, Robin's mother was impregnated by the Green Man?

[Michele]

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