Speakers
Tom Freeth
Tom Freeth, trained in horticulture and landscape designing, is a nature lover in all its forms.
His career has led him through various disciplines from golf courses and residential landscaping to international Botanic Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. In 2016 he was appointed to his current role looking after the Alpine and Rock Living Collection and Gardens at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.
Alpine and Living Rock Collections at RBG Kew
Tony Reznicek
Tony Reznicek has recently retired from his day job as a Curator at the University of Michigan Herbarium, especially working with the flora and biogeography of the Great Lakes region, with strong interests in rare plant conservation, plant migration, and related topics.
Virginia Hildebrandt
Bio: I have been a lifelong gardener, but my first love was science. I graduated as a Registered Medical Technologist (Bacteriology) and worked in that field for 5 years.
