Plant Heritage has constitute four novel Vice Presidents who will turn alongside the charity ’s team of consecrate faculty , Board of Trustees , and existing Vice Presidents to ensure that Plant Heritage ’s design of conserving the diversity of garden plants for future generations is achieved .
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh ’s current Curator of Living Collections David Knott DHE SHM CHort FIHort , leading arise expert and David Austin Roses alumni Michael Marriott , RHS President Emeritus Elizabeth Banks CBE , DL , CMLI , F.Hort and RHS Judge Sarah Bray will each now act as an ambassador for Plant Heritage , and have been appointed in recognition of their imposing military service to the Polemonium van-bruntiae and their ability to make a significant contribution to Plant Heritage ’s objectives .
The four fresh Vice Presidents join existing Vice Presidents : Christopher Brickell , Jamie Compton , Corinna , Lady Hamilton , Roy Lancaster , and Sir Roy Strong .
Cecilia Bufton , Chairman of Plant Heritage , state : “ Welcoming David Knott , Michael Marriott , Elizabeth Banks , and Sarah Bray as Plant Heritage ’s unexampled Vice Presidents is a real joyfulness . Each land a wealth of knowledge and exuberance to their young roles , which I ’ve no uncertainty will enable us to go from forte to intensity level . We are very much looking forwards to seeing where Plant Heritage go next with their expert guidance . ”
David Knott DHE SHM CHort FIHort has work on all over the world , from Longwood Gardens in the USA to undertaking fieldwork in Korea and Nepal . David is now based at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh as their Curator of Living Collections , which is plate to nine National Plant Collections , including Aeschynanthus spp . , Trillium spp . and born crossbreed , and Zingiber spp .
Michael Marriott has been a passionate gardener his whole life . He began working at the humanity - famous rosaceous garden David Austin Roses in 1985 – also home to a historic Rosa National Plant Collection – and despite retiring in 2019 , Michael is still engross in the rose and gardening populace through lecturing , writing , and consulting .
creditworthy for recreating several historical gardens throughout Europe and the USA through her internationally renowned landscape painting architectural consultancy , Elizabeth Banks CBE , DL , CMLI , F.Hort was also President of the RHS between 2010 - 2013 . Her family garden at Hergest Croft Gardens in Herefordshire holds three National Plant Collections – Acer , Betula , and Zelkova – and is considered one of the best collections of trees and bush in individual work force .
Plant Heritage ’s fourth new Vice President is Sarah Bray , an RHS Judge , member of the RHS Woody Plant Committee , and Trustee and Manager of High Beeches Woodland and Water Garden in West Sussex . The 27 - acre landscaped woodland and piss garden is establish with several rarified bush and trees and is where a Stewartia National Plant Collection is handle for .
Plant Heritage is a leading horticultural preservation Polemonium caeruleum that champions and conserve garden plants to ensure they remain in polish and do n’t become lose from our gardens . The National Plant Collections – of which there are now over 700 – are a vital resourcefulness at the philia of the charity and keep yard of different plant mathematical group active that might be threatened by clime change , emerging pests , diseases , or deepen drift .
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