Tony Lord (photographer)

Tony Lord (photographer)

Tony Lord is a United Kingdom gardener, photographer and author. In 2005 the Royal Horticultural Society awarded him the Victoria Medal of Honour (V.M.H) for his work as a garden photographer, horticultural consultant and writer. [http://www.rhs.org.uk/about/pdf/trusteesreport.pdf "Trustees’ Annual Report and Consolidated Financial Statements 2005/06" Royal Horticultural Society] ] [http://www.rhs.org.uk/news/pressreleases/rhsawards010705.asp "RHS honours four with horticulture’s highest accolade" 1 July 2005 Royal Horticultural Society] ]

Lord started out as a social anthropologist. In Micronesia, he studied the connections between nature and indigenous peoples, and became very interested in plants and their interactions. [ [http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/gt_other/article/0,,diy_13865_4685283,00.html "Tony Lord: The "Avant" gardener - Eclectic gardener Tony Lord has a way with the weird"] from "Pest Detectives, Fruit Trees, Weird Gardening and More" "Dirt On Gardening" episode DDOG-107 (2007), DIY Network]

Lord received his gardening training at Kew Gardens, holds a doctorate in horticulture, and later was the Gardens Adviser for the British National Trust. For over ten years he has edited the Royal Horticultural Society annual publication "Plant Finder", and he is a regular contributor to the magazine "The Garden".

Lord's first book, "Best Borders" [Lord, Tony (1994) "Best Borders" Viking, New York, NY ISBN 0670854077 ;] , won the Garden Writers' Guild award for the best general gardening book of 1994. His book "Gardening at Sissinghurst" [Lord, Tony (1995) "Gardening at Sissinghurst" Macmillan, New York, NY, ISBN 0028603893 ;] took a new and deeper approach to garden analysis [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEFDF1439F935A25755C0A960958260 Galitzki, Dora (1996) "Books: Gardening" "New York Times" 16 June 1996] ;] and has been translated into German, French and Dutch.

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