Tony Lord
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. Lord started out as a social anthropologist.
Tony Lord
- Born
- 1949
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- horticulturist · photographer · gardener · writer
- Fields
- gardening · photography
- Languages
- English
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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. Lord started out as a social anthropologist.
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In Micronesia, he studied the connections between nature and indigenous peoples, and became very interested in plants and their interactions. Lord received his gardening training at Kew Gardens, holds a doctorate in horticulture, and later was the Gardens Adviser for the British National Trust. 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, won the Garden Writers' Guild award for the best general gardening book of 1994. His book Gardening at Sissinghurst took a new and deeper approach to garden analysis and has been translated into German, French and Dutch.
The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is gardening and photography.
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- 1.Royal Horticultural Society. Trustees' Annual Report and Consolidated Financial Statements 2005/06.
- 2.Royal Horticultural Society. RHS honours four with horticulture's highest accolade. 1 July 2005.
- 3."Tony Lord: The Avant gardener – Eclectic gardener Tony Lord has a way with the weird" from "Pest Detectives, Fruit Trees, Weird Gardening and More" Dirt On Gardening episode DDOG-107 (2007), DIY Network
- 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.Galitzki, Dora (1996) "Books: Gardening" New York Times 16 June 1996;
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