Pippa Greenwood

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.

Pippa Greenwood in 2012

Qualifications and career edit

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]

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

^ ^a ^b "About Pippa Greenwood". 2009. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
^ "BBC presenter gets honorary degree". Durham University. 23 October 2007. Retrieved 10 October 2009.

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