Specialities

• Lecturer
• Photographic Collection
• Social Media Influencer
• Sound Broadcaster: Local Radio
• Website Editor
• Website Writer
• Writer: Consumer Magazines
• Writer: Trade & Professional

Alan Down Master of Horticulture [RHS]

Full Member

Biography

Writer: local newspapers; radio; lecturer [in person or Zoom]; blogger; photographic collection; plantsman. Specialist subjects: all hardy plants & perennials. Plants for shade/autumn colour/container growing/winter colour/all round colour/hardy foliage plants/attractive bark/bees and butterflies. New varieties, fruit and vegetable growing, gardening to encourage wildlife,

Additional Interests

Lifetime gardener and plant expert. Retired nurseryman. The natural environment and wildlife. Past President of the Horticultural Trades Association. Deer management and gardens. Hellebores and Magnolias. World travel for flora and fauna. Predators of the World. Namaqualand desert flowers. Gardens of northwest USA. Gardeners Questions Time panelist. Judging new plant introductions. Plants that deliver good value in the garden.

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Talks

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