Give Me Chastity - But Not Yet. Gardening in a Changing Climate
Join KMIS lecture in person at Kew or online for this fundraiser event with John Grimshaw discussing the difficult choices facing gardeners challenged by the effects of climate change. John has been interested in plants and gardening all his life, and followed a degree in botany with a doctorate in African forest ecology. After that he moved to professional horticulture, working first for the Sahin seed company in The Netherlands before managing the famous snowdrop garden at Colesbourne Park in Gloucestershire. While there he led the ‘New Trees’ book project for the International Dendrology Society, published by Kew in 2009.
In 2012 he became Director of the Yorkshire Arboretum in North Yorkshire, where he has led a series of significant projects including establishing the UK’s first Tree Health Centre, and a Red Squirrel Enclosure. Simultaneously he runs the IDS Trees and Shrubs Online project, creating a digital encyclopaedia of cultivated temperate woody plants.
Time: 18:00 BST
