Pippa Greenwood in 2012

Pippa Greenwood is an English plant pathologist. She appears frequently on the BBC's long-running Gardeners' World television programme and has been a regular panellist on Gardeners' Question Time on BBC Radio 4 since 1994. She also was the gardening consultant on the ITV series Rosemary and Thyme in 2003–2006.

Qualifications and career

Greenwood studied at Durham University, where she trained as a botanist. She went on to gain an MSc in crop protection at Reading University in the 1980s. For eleven years she ran the Royal Horticultural Society's Plant Pathology Department at Wisley.[1]

In 2007, Greenwood made a return visit to Durham University, where she was awarded an honorary doctorate.[2]

Pippa Greenwood lives in Hampshire.[1]

Bibliography

  • Gardener's Question Time: All Your Gardening Problems Solved,with co-authors John Cushnie, Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness, Anne Swithinbank, illustrations by Bunny Guinness, and photographs from The Garden Picture Gallery and others, paperback, 325 pp., Bookmart Limited, 2005, ISBN 1-84509-189-2

References

  1. 1 2 "About Pippa Greenwood". 2009. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  2. ↑ "BBC presenter gets honorary degree". Durham University. 23 October 2007. Retrieved 10 October 2009.


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