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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

Pot up a house leek

Posted by Jim Gardiner on 02 Jun 2008 at 02:57 PM

Meet the Gardeners continued throughout half term last week.  On Thursday it was the Alpine Department who enthalled our youngest visitors.  They had a field day with Sempervivum, otherwise known as house leeks. 

We were lucky enough to enjoy good weather for most of the day. 

Lucie Rudnicka and co spent the day enthusing about the joys of gardening, and the children went home happy with their own small souvenir of their days work. 

Hopefully it will have "sown a seed" about the joys of horticulture that will stay with them for a lifetime.

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