Pippa Greenwood is an English

plant pathologist Plant pathology or phytopathology is the scientific study of plant diseases caused by pathogens (infectious organisms) and environmental conditions (physiological factors). Plant pathology involves the study of pathogen identification, disease ...

and television and radio presenter. She appears frequently on the

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's long-running ''

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'' television programme and has been a regular panellist on ''

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'' on

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since 1994. She also was the gardening consultant on the ITV series Rosemary and Thyme in 2003–2006. Greenwood was awarded an honorary doctorate by Durham University.

Qualifications and career

Greenwood was born in London. Greenwood studied at

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, where she trained as a

botanist Botany, also called plant science, is the branch of natural science and biology studying plants, especially Plant anatomy, their anatomy, Plant taxonomy, taxonomy, and Plant ecology, ecology. A botanist or plant scientist is a scientist who s ...

. She went on to gain an MSc in

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in the 1980s. For eleven years, from 1985, she ran the

Royal Horticultural Society The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, is the UK's leading gardening charity. The RHS promotes horticulture through its five gardens at Wisley (Surrey), Hyde Hall (Essex), Harlow Carr ...

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Department at

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. She began working for the BBC in 1988, beginning with the gardening slot on Daytime Live. She appears frequently on the

's long-running ''

'' television programme and has been a regular panellist on ''

'' on

since 1994. She also was the gardening consultant on the ITV series Rosemary and Thyme in 2003–2006. In 2000–2002 she presented the series ''Growing Science'' on Radio 4. Greenwood writes gardening columns in Ideal Home Magazine and the Daily Mirror, and has written a number of gardening books. In 2007, Greenwood made a return visit to Durham University, where she was awarded an honorary doctorate. Greenwood is married with two children, and lives outside

Petersfield Petersfield is a market town and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is north of Portsmouth. The town has its own Petersfield railway station, railway station on the Portsmouth Direct line, the mainline rai ...

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, in the South Downs. She is President of Petersfield in Bloom, and Patron of Hampshire's only wildlife hospital, Hart Wildlife, near Medstead.

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,

References

External links

Pippa Greenwood's Official WebsiteInterview on 50connectThe GQT Panel: Pippa Greenwood
BBC website. Retrieved 2009-04-24. {{DEFAULTSORT:Greenwood, Pippa British phytopathologists English gardeners British television presenters English garden writers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of Trevelyan College, Durham British women scientists British women botanists Alumni of the University of Reading British women television presenters