Specialities

• Photographer

Howard Rice BA Hons, MSC (Cantab)

Full Member

Biography

Howard has had a lifelong passion for both photography and gardening. Howard holds a joint honours degree in Botany and Geography and studied Woodland Conservation at Cambridge University for his master's degree. After a short spell as a Trees Advisory Officer at Suffolk County Council, he joined a small team at the Consumers' Association where Gardening Which? magazine was soon to be launched. After a rewarding twelve years, first as a Projects Officer and then as Projects Manager, Howard escaped from his office desk in 1994 to become a full time garden photographer.

Additional Interests

Howard lives near the centre of Cambridge with his wife, Fiona who is also a photographer and a keen gardener. They have two grown up sons and live in a carefully restored Victorian house with a tranquil walled garden. Howard and Fiona have spent twenty years completely redesigning their garden which is now subdivided into compartments, including a formal lawn with herbaceous borders and topiary, a wild garden, a wooden greenhouse with a collection of species and old fashioned pelargoniums, plus tomatoes and melons in season, and a period style conservatory where Howard indulges his passion for growing species orchids.

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