2024: Fiona Meriel Eadie
Location: Dunedin
Our mission: ‘To encourage and improve horticulture in NZ by promoting the understanding, appreciation, conservation and use of plants’.
Awards
Horticultural Communicator Award
The award is granted to any nominated individual within New Zealand making outstanding contributions to horticultural communication.
The aim of the award is to recognise individuals who are outstanding horticultural communicators. Horticultural contributions may include written articles, book authorships, plant photography, speaking engagements, television and radio appearances, podcasts, and contributions to social media.
This award was established by the RNZIH in 2022 following a suggestion by Vice-President Alan Jolliffe.
Recipients of the Horticultural Communicator Award
2023: Joanna (‘Jo’) Rose McCarroll
Location: Auckland
2022: John (‘Jack’) Gordon Hobbs
Location: Auckland
Fiona Eadie, RNZIH Horticultural Communicator for 2024.
Associate of Honour (AHRIH)
“Persons who have rendered distinguished service to horticulture”
Fellow (FRIH)
“Members who have made a significant contribution to horticulture by their activities or interest in or service to horticulture”
Plant Raisers’ Award
“Granted to any nominated individual or organisation who has raised in New Zealand a cultivar considered to be sufficiently meritorious”
Garden History Award
“Granted to any nominated individual or organisation within New Zealand making distinguished contributions to horticultural history and conservation”
Nominations
Contact the RNZIH if you wish to nominate someone for the Horticultural Communicator Award.
Nominations can be made by a branch or by National Executive of the RNZIH, any horticultural organisation affiliated to RNZIH, or any incorporated horticultural organisation.
Closing date: 31 December each year.
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Fiona Eadie is now the third Horticultural Communicator to be recognised by the Royal NZ Institute of...
Posted by Royal NZ Institute of Horticulture on Thursday, 14 March 2024
Congratulations to Jo McCarroll, editor of NZ Gardener magazine and garden journalist, for becoming the second-ever...
Posted by Royal NZ Institute of Horticulture on Friday, 7 July 2023
The Royal NZ Institute of Horticulture Horticultural Communicator Award is a new award for 2022. We are delighted to...
Posted by Royal NZ Institute of Horticulture on Sunday, 10 April 2022