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.^[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

1. "Trustees' Annual Report and Consolidated Financial Statements 2005/06" (PDF). Royal Horticultural Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 August 2006.
2. "RHS honours four with horticulture's highest accolade". Royal Horticultural Society. 1 July 2005. Archived from the original on 20 November 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 ISBN 0-670-85407-7 ;
6. Lord, Tony (1995) Gardening at Sissinghurst Macmillan, New York, NY, ISBN 0-02-860389-3 ;
7. Galitzki, Dora (1996) "Books: Gardening" New York Times 16 June 1996;