Pippa Greenwood Explained

Pippa Greenwood is an English plant pathologist. She appears frequently on the BBC's long-running Gardeners' World television programme and has been a regular panellist on Gardeners' Question Time on BBC Radio 4 since 1994. She also was the gardening consultant on the ITV series Rosemary and Thyme in 2003–2006.

Qualifications and career

Greenwood studied at Durham University, where she trained as a botanist. She went on to gain an MSc in crop protection at Reading University in the 1980s. For eleven years she ran the Royal Horticultural Society's Plant Pathology Department at Wisley.^[1]

In 2007, Greenwood made a return visit to Durham University, where she was awarded an honorary doctorate.^[2]

Pippa Greenwood lives in Hampshire.

Bibliography

• Gardener's Question Time: All Your Gardening Problems Solved,with co-authors John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness, Anne Swithinbank, illustrations by Bunny Guinness, and photographs from The Garden Picture Gallery and others, paperback, 325 pp., Bookmart Limited, 2005,

External links

• Pippa Greenwood's Official Website
• Celebrity gardener
• Interview on 50connect
• The GQT Panel: Pippa Greenwood. BBC website. Retrieved 2009-04-24.

Notes and References

1. Web site: About Pippa Greenwood . 2009 . 2019-12-24.
2. Web site: BBC presenter gets honorary degree . Durham University . 2007-10-23 . 2009-10-10.