Tony Lord Explained

Tony Lord is a United Kingdom gardener, photographer and author. In 2005 the Royal Horticultural Society awarded him the Victoria Medal of Honour (V.M.H) for his work as a garden photographer, horticultural consultant and writer.^{[1] [2]}

Lord started out as a social anthropologist. In Micronesia, he studied the connections between nature and indigenous peoples, and became very interested in plants and their interactions.^[3]

Lord received his gardening training at Kew Gardens, holds a doctorate in horticulture, and later was the Gardens Adviser for the British National Trust.^[4] For over ten years he has edited the Royal Horticultural Society annual publication Plant Finder, and he is a regular contributor to the magazine The Garden.

Lord's first book, Best Borders,^[5] won the Garden Writers' Guild award for the best general gardening book of 1994. His book Gardening at Sissinghurst^[6] took a new and deeper approach to garden analysis^[7] and has been translated into German, French and Dutch.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Trustees' Annual Report and Consolidated Financial Statements 2005/06 . Royal Horticultural Society . https://web.archive.org/web/20060827135728/http://www.rhs.org.uk/about/pdf/trusteesreport.pdf . 27 August 2006 . dead.
2. Web site: RHS honours four with horticulture's highest accolade . 1 July 2005 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20051120235301/http://www.rhs.org.uk/news/pressreleases/rhsawards010705.asp . 20 November 2005 . dead.
3. http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/gt_other/article/0,,diy_13865_4685283,00.html "Tony Lord: The Avant gardener - Eclectic gardener Tony Lord has a way with the weird"
4. Ireland, Carolyn (22 August 2008) "Gardens à la carte; The former gardens adviser to Britain's National Trust provides a selection of menu options for the amateur horticulturalist" The Globe and Mail (Canada) p. G-8
5. Lord, Tony (1994) Best Borders Viking, New York, NY ;
6. Lord, Tony (1995) Gardening at Sissinghurst Macmillan, New York, NY, ;
7. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEFDF1439F935A25755C0A960958260 Galitzki, Dora (1996) "Books: Gardening" New York Times 16 June 1996