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Jim Gardiner

Jim Gardiner Director of Horticulture RHS Garden Wisley

Jim Gardiner is the recently appointed Director of Horticulture for the Royal Horticultural Society and has previously been Curator and Chief Curator based at Wisley for over twenty years. Before that he was Curator at the Hillier Gardens and Arboretum. His primary interest is in woody plants, in particular Magnolias on which he has written two books, “Magnolias, their Care and Cultivation” and “Magnolias, A Gardener’s Guide”.

  • Date Joined: 12 Jul 2007

Recent Comments

  • Hazel's pansies

    Jim Gardiner on 28 Nov 2007 at 09:40 AM

    One of the newest members of the Trials Department team is Hazel Kennedy. She started in mid September having just completed the two year Wisley Diploma in Practical Horticulture. Although everyone works on everything, each member of the team has particular plant trials that they take responsibility for, and for Hazel it is the pansies.

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  • Apple Branding

    Jim Gardiner on 21 Nov 2007 at 03:51 PM

    We recently had a visit form Pascal Garbe, Director of the Garden of Fruit at Laquenexy in France. He came over to see us after Kirsty Summerhayes from our Fruit Department had made an earlier trip to visit his garden to witness some of the more interesting fruit techniques used there.

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  • Preparing for winter

    Jim Gardiner on 13 Nov 2007 at 03:16 PM

    In the past few days the garden teams have been busy tidying up the borders in preparation for winter.

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