National horticultural charity Garden Organic has appointed Donald Murray as its new Director of Organic Horticulture .
Donald Murray
Don will be creditworthy for the ontogenesis and carrying out of an constituent horticultural strategy for the charity . He will be the lead representative for the charity ’s campaigning study and in charge of circulate organic and sustainable horticulture noesis throughout the country .
Don has had a grand career working within the horticultural sector across the UK and abroad for the past 30 years . Initially , he worked within modern and historic gardens including Belhaven Gardens , Marie Selby Botanical Garden , University of Missouri St Louis before deal up the theatrical role of Curator at Birmingham ’s Botanical Gardens and Glasshouses . Don was a conservator at the Eden Project and build up to become Head of Horticulture at the Eden Project for ten years . More latterly he was Head of Landscape and Horticulture at the Mount Stuart Trust and Director of Horticulture at The Newt in Somerset .
Throughout his career , Don has worked across organization to start and implement eruditeness , sustainability , clime and biodiversity projects . At Eden Project Don was subservient in the development and management of premier visitant experiences so as to maintain high-pitched horticulture timbre , visitor numbers and influence masses to become more attached with nature .
While working at the Eden Project , Don allow for overseas consultancy for a range of telling gardens and establish a developed a number of horticulture learning programmes .
He is a passionate and versatile botanic leader with an MSc in Plant Taxonomy and an fighting legal guardian of the PlantNetwork the Plant Collections connection of Britain and Ireland ; Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Horticulture , Fellow of the Linnaean Society and a Member of the Professional Gardeners Guild .
Don stormily shares Garden Organic ’s vision of a country where more people grow organically and develop more of their own intellectual nourishment .
Don tell : “ I ’m thrilled to join and be part of the Garden Organic family line , to have an opportunity to engage in a ‘ can do ’ smell with the panoptic audience potential so that we can all become good stewards of the planet and enable sustainable horticulture to be the norm . ”
James Campbell , Chief Executive of Garden Organic says : “ we sense very fortunate to have secured Donald for this position and feel indisputable he will stick out us in further develop our strategy to put the Jacob’s ladder as the authorised articulation in the sector and train the public in terminal figure of constitutive horticultural issues . ”
Garden Organic is bang-up to control that its messages are well delivered in all corner of the British Isles and do work with Kim Stoddart , gardening journalist , writer and climate alteration gardening flight simulator to fend for its work in Wales and Dr. Bruce Pearce , former Director of Research & Innovation of the Organic Research Centre and expert in organic policy and participatory enquiry to support its work in Scotland .
For more info : Garden Organicwww.gardenorganic.org.uk
