How My Garden Healed Me: David Wheeler's cancer story from the Daily Telegraph, 2 August 2008
David Wheeler was recently awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal (one of the Royal Horticultural Society’s highest accolades) for 'his outstanding contribution to the advancement and improvement of the science and practice of horticulture’. The gold medal was presented in July 2009 in recognition of David's work as the founding (and continuing) editor of HORTUS. Eminent recipients of the Veitch Memoral Medal include William Stearn, Frank Kingdon Ward, Augustine Henry, Liberty Hyde Bailey and E. H. Wilson.


 

"Breaking Ground"
Norfolk Botanical Garden, Virginia.

Ink drawing
by
Simon Dorrell

 


The Best-selling Gardening Quarterly

Offering the finest garden writing in the English language

HORTUS is a privately published quarterly journal which addresses itself to intelligent and lively-minded gardeners
throughout the English-speaking world.

The beautifully printed and bound issues, each of 128 pages,
contain articles on gardens, plants, people and books;
history design and ornament.

There are conversations with the great figuresof present-day
horticulture, essays, notes and thorough reviews of new and reissued books.


HORTUS
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A Twenty-first
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The Journal
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HORTUS,
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Founder, Proprietor and Editor: David Wheeler
Art Editor: Simon Dorrell
Subscriptions Manager: Barbara Lancett
Typesetting & Printing: Smith Settle, Otley, West Yorkshire