Tony Lord

Tony Lord Tony was Gardens Adviser for the National Trust until 1989, before going freelance and working as a horticultural author and photographer. He also acts as technical consultant and editor, dealing with books on plants and gardens for numerous publishers. He was sole editor of The Plant Finder for its first ten editions (1987-1996) and is now Consultant Editor in its current incarnation as The RHS Plant Finder. He finds the problems of applying the codes of nomenclature consistently to a list of 70,000 plant names fascinating and frustrating! Although striving to achieve names that are as correct as is practically and pragmatically possible for such a diverse range of plants, there are instances in which some of the articles of the codes are not clear and are hard to apply, sometimes even risking destabilising well-known plant names.

His committee memberships include: RHS Floral A; RHS Trials Committee; (Chairman) RHS Floral Trials Subcommittee; RHS Reginald Cory Memorial Cup Committee; RHS Advisory Panel on Nomenclature and Taxonomy; Gardens Panel, National Trust. He is also a Vice-President of the Hardy Plant Society.

RHS Plant Finder: http://apps.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/

This profile was updated 03 February 2007.

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