Our mission: ‘To encourage and improve horticulture in NZ by promoting the understanding, appreciation, conservation and use of plants’.
Team Profile
Scottish born, Andrew Maloy emigrated to New Zealand in 1974.
Upon arrival to New Zealand, Andrew spent the next nine years
working at two nurseries as propagation supervisor and production
manager in the Auckland region.
Andrew was self-employed in his bromeliad production nursery at
Whenuapai, Auckland, and moved to Waiheke Island in March 2016. He
currently volunteers as a ranger on nearby Rotoroa Island.
From 1982 to 2016, he was been self-employed running his own
nursery production business, during which he has also been a
Lecturer in Amenity Horticulture, Nursery Production and Plant
Propagation at UNITEC Institute of Technology, Auckland (from 1991
to 1997).
From 1998 until 2002 Andrew was also technical writer for the
Consumers' Institute Home & Garden magazine. He continues his
writing and editing skills as the Plant Doctor for Weekend
Gardener magazine and as associate editor of the New
Zealand Garden Journal (Journal of the RNZIH). Andrew was a
previous Chairman of the RNZIH executive committee from 2000 to
2006, during which the NZ Gardens Trust and NZ Education Trust was
established.
