Our mission: ‘To encourage and improve horticulture in NZ by promoting the understanding, appreciation, conservation and use of plants’.
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 Alan Jolliffe.
2026: Gillian Norma Vine
Location: Dunedin
Citation: New Zealand Garden Journal, 2026, Vol.
29(1): in prep.
2025: Lynda Hallinan
Location: Auckland
Citation: New Zealand Garden Journal, 2025, Vol.
28(1): 9–10
2024: Fiona Meriel Eadie
Location: Dunedin
Citation: New Zealand Garden Journal, 2024, Vol.
27(2): 19
2023: Joanna (‘Jo’) Rose McCarroll
Location: Auckland
Citation: New Zealand Garden Journal, 2024, Vol.
27(1): 26
2022: John (‘Jack’) Gordon Hobbs
Location: Auckland
Citation:
New Zealand Garden Journal, 2022, Vol. 25(1): 9
Gillian Vine, RNZIH Horticultural Communicator for 2026.
“Persons who have rendered distinguished service to horticulture”
“Members who have made a significant contribution to horticulture by their activities or interest in or service to horticulture”
“Granted to any nominated individual or organisation who has raised in New Zealand a cultivar considered to be sufficiently meritorious”
“Granted to any nominated individual or organisation within New Zealand making distinguished contributions to horticultural history and conservation”
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.
🌿 Celebrating Gillian Vine, winner of the 2026 Horticultural Communicator Award! The Royal NZ Institute of Horticulture...
Posted by Royal NZ Institute of Horticulture on Tuesday 21 April 2026
The Royal NZ Institute of Horticulture proudly presents Lynda Hallinan with the 2025 Horticultural Communicator...
Posted by Royal NZ Institute of Horticulture on Sunday 16 March 2025
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