Victoria Medal (horticulture) Totally Explained

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Victoria Medal of Honour (VMH) is awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society to leading figures in United Kingdom horticulture, and is the highest accolade in British gardening. It is awarded to those who are deemed by the Society's Council to be deserving of special recognition in the field of horticulture.
The award was established in 1897 "in perpetual remembrance of Her Majesty’s glorious reign, and to enable the Council to confer honour on British horticulturists." The Society's rules state that only sixty-three horticulturists can hold the VMH at any given time, in commemoration of the sixty-three years of Queen Victoria's reign. Therefore the honour isn't awarded every year, but may be made to multiple awardees in other years.

Awards

1897-2002

Walter Speed (1897) Head Gardener at Penrhyn Castle, Wales
Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1902)
George Forrest (1921)
John Hutchinson (1944)
Lilian Snelling (1955)
Alan Bloom
Graham Stuart Thomas (1968)
Christopher Lloyd (1979)
Adrian Bloom
Beth Chatto (1987)
Roy Lancaster (1988)
Fred Whitsey
Ghillean Tolmie Prance (1999)
David Austin (2002) for his rose breeding

2003

Peter Beales for his rose breeding and media promotion of gardening

Peter Seabrook for his rose breeding

David S. Ingram for his pioneering research into plant diseases

2005

Martin Lane Fox for his work in landscape garden design

Tony Lord for his work as a garden photographer and horticultural consultant

Edmund Leopold de Rothschild for his work with rhododendron hybrids

Tom Wood for his administrative work promoting horticulture

2006

Jim Buttress, for his work as a garden show judge

Miss Sibylle Kreutzberger, for her work at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent

Miss Pamela Schwerdt, for her work at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent

Dr. Henry Oakeley, for his scientific work on orchids, the genera Lycaste, Ida and AnguloaFurther Information

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