Dr Timothy Walker
I have been connected with Pembroke for more than a decade. Until 2014 I was director the University's Botanic Garden and Arboretum. My particular interests are in plant conservation, pollination & plant reproduction, island biogeography, and the genus Euphorbia.
My first career was a working as a professional gardener in gardens such as Savill Garden in Windsor, Kew Gardens, and Oxford Botanic Garden. I became the Superintendent of the Botanic Garden in 1988 and the role was redefined in 2002 as the Director. I stayed at the Garden until 2014 after which I retrained as University lecturer and I now teach biology in all three years of the course.
During my three decades at the Garden I oversaw the Garden's participation in practical plant conservation projects including in situ conservation of local plants and ex situ conservation of endangered species from other countries. We started a Schools Education Programme with the capacity for every school student in Oxfordshire to visit the Garden (without charge) to learn about the pivotal role that plants play in our lives.
I am also interested in the connection between gardening and fine art and the parallel evolution of the paintings of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock and the plantings of Sandra & Nori Pope and James Hitchmough. The Popes and Professor Hitchmough designed borders at the Botanic Garden during my time there.
Euphorbias (2000) RHS publications
Plants: a very short introduction (2012) Oxford University Press
Plant Conservation (2013) Timber Press
How plants work (2018) ed. Stephen Blackmore Ivy Press
Pollination (2020) Princeton University Press
Dr Timothy Walker
I have been connected with Pembroke for more than a decade. Until 2014 I was director the University's Botanic Garden and Arboretum. My particular interests are in plant conservation, pollination & plant reproduction, island biogeography, and the genus Euphorbia.
My first career was a working as a professional gardener in gardens such as Savill Garden in Windsor, Kew Gardens, and Oxford Botanic Garden. I became the Superintendent of the Botanic Garden in 1988 and the role was redefined in 2002 as the Director. I stayed at the Garden until 2014 after which I retrained as University lecturer and I now teach biology in all three years of the course.
During my three decades at the Garden I oversaw the Garden's participation in practical plant conservation projects including in situ conservation of local plants and ex situ conservation of endangered species from other countries. We started a Schools Education Programme with the capacity for every school student in Oxfordshire to visit the Garden (without charge) to learn about the pivotal role that plants play in our lives.
I am also interested in the connection between gardening and fine art and the parallel evolution of the paintings of Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock and the plantings of Sandra & Nori Pope and James Hitchmough. The Popes and Professor Hitchmough designed borders at the Botanic Garden during my time there.
Euphorbias (2000) RHS publications
Plants: a very short introduction (2012) Oxford University Press
Plant Conservation (2013) Timber Press
How plants work (2018) ed. Stephen Blackmore Ivy Press
Pollination (2020) Princeton University Press