Richard Bisgrove

Richard Bisgrove has degrees in Horticultural Science and Landscape Architecture. He lectured at the University of Reading for forty years, introducing Britain’s first degree course in Landscape Management, retiring as its Director in 2009. He was for many years a member of the Council and Conservation Committee of the Garden History Society (now The Gardens Trust) and served for nineteen years on the Gardens Panel of the National Trust. He has lectured internationally and written eight books on aspects of garden design and garden history, including The National Trust Book of the English Garden (Viking 1990; Penguin 1992), The Gardens of Gertrude Jekyll (Frances Lincoln 1992; University of California Press 2000) and William Robinson: the Wild Gardener (Frances Lincoln 2008). He has been awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society, the Peter Youngman Award by the Landscape
Institute and is an Honorary Fellow of the Kew Guild. He continues to lecture in Garden History at The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and Oxford University.