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The only student to be offered a job at Kew upon graduation, he spent the next 14 years managing part of Kew's arboretum. During this time, he completed several plant collecting expeditions in East Asia, including South Korea, Taiwan, the
Russian Far East and Sakhalin Island, China and Japan to add
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Arboretum, Gardens and Horticultural Services where he and his team managed 14,000 trees and shared their passion for trees with the visitors to Kew. He is the author of several books and ran the "Treeathlon" to support the
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International Dendrology Society, and chairs the Trees and Shrubs Online committee, Council at the RHS, plus the awards committee, Horticulture Board and is chair of the RHS woody plant committee.
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Massachusetts Horticultural Society (USA) awarded Tony the Thomas Roland Medal for exceptional development and dissemination of horticultural knowledge at their 120th Honorary Medals Ceremony.
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learning about tree management within urban and park environments he moved to Kew to study the world-famous
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Trustee of the Tree
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campaign for more trees in urban areas in the UK, and says that “looking at trees anywhere in the world” is one of his hobbies.
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