Modern Cactus Explorations: Challenges, benefits and adventures
Join KMIS to hear of Andrew Gdaniec's vast experience with cacti. He pursued his passion throughout his formative years and went on to study Botany at Gdansk University, Poland. In 2006 he decided to move to the UK to blend his scientific studies with practical horticulture. He followed study programmes to help develop horticultural skills in a botanical setting, first at Birmingham Botanical Garden, then onto the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, completing the Kew Diploma in Horticulture. These experiences crystallized his hopes for his career: to be actively involved in professional plant cultivation as a well-trained horitculturist with a good science background.
In September 2013, Andrews took the post of Curator of the Gibratlar Botanic Gardens, where for 10 years he worked on developing scientific collections with emphasis on succulent plants.
Currently Andrew is focusing on his PhD at the University of Reading: Taxonomy and biogeography of Caribbean cacti. In person at Kew and online.
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