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Mark Griffiths is one of Britain’s leading writers on horticultural and botanical subjects, with several definitive gardening books to his credit and regular media columns. Trained at Oxford University and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, at the age of just twenty-five Mark was appointed Editor and principal author of the award-winning New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening (1992), the largest work on gardening yet produced. His articles have appeared in publications including The Plantsman, The Garden and The Oxford Companion to the English Language. In 2000, he was appointed Horticulture Correspondent of The Times, and he is a regular contributor of major feature articles to Country Life.
Mark is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, Britain’s academy for the biological sciences, and an Honorary Member of the Royal College of Physicians. In 2006, his long-standing interest in medicinal plants bore fruit in his restoration of the gardens of the Royal College of Physicians, thus reviving what was possibly Britain’s earliest botanic garden. His other horticultural consultancy and design projects range from working with private clients to Gold Medal-winning show exhibits. Mark is based in Oxford, and his next book, The Lotus Quest, will be published by Chatto & Windus in 2009.
Recent books:
The Lotus Quest (Chatto & Windus: due 2009)
RHS Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening (Dorling Kindersley: 2005)
Orchids: the Fine Art of Cultivation (Scriptum/HNA: 2005)
A Century of Photographs: Gardening (HarperCollins Illustrated: 2000)
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