News Articles

Orchid fever! They're blooms to die for and nature's greatest seducers. No wonder millions of Britons have succumbed, The Daily Mail, 19th Jan 2012

A garden with a castle, The Jewish Chronicle, 19th Aug 2011

Royal weddings past from 1795 to 1981, The Telegraph, 24th Apr 2011

The Queen's birthday - 85 facts you should know about The Queen, The Telegraph, 22 Apr 2011

Making History, The Wealden Times, Mar 2011

For their posterity
, Country Life, 16 Feb 2011

Gardeners who got caught out by the bad winter
, The Telegraph, 25 Jan 2011

Dartford’s royal silk producers rue the end of a unique production line, Dartford & Swanley Times, 5 Jan 2011

Closure of English silk farm will force a material change for next royal wedding, The Times, 4 Jan 2011

Former kidnap victim and Bromley Times Green Man ‘wept’ for hostage couple, Bromley Times, 17 Nov 2010

'I owe my garden to my Colombian kidnappers', The Financial Times, 13 Nov 2010

'Granny' was a real inspiration
, Sevenoaks Chronicle, 10 Sept 2010

Tom talks up the trees
, Kent County Council, 1 Sept 2010

Across Britain it's secateurs at dawn, The Telegraph, 15 Aug 2010

Kent County Show 2010, Kent Life, 16 July 2010

Out of this world: Gum trees from Australia, palms from China and shrubs from Peru, The Daily Mail, 17 May 2010

From a plant hunter to a hostage, BBC Kent, 11 Nov 2009 

Lullingstone Castle: Around the world in 8,000 speciesThe Independent, 6 Sept 2009

Lullingstone Castle: Nobody's vault but mine, The Telegraph, 28 May 2008

How to get the Chelsea Flower Show look on the cheap, The Times, 16 May 2008

Going for a song, The Times, 8 April 2007

Return To Lullingstone Castle BBC Two, The Radio Times, March 2007

World garden that has saved a castle for future generations, Kent News, 19 March 2007

The garden that flowered in death's shadow, The Telegraph, 19 March 2007

Me and my travelsThe Observer, 4 March 2007

Relative Values: Plantsman Tom Hart Dyke and his mother Sarah, The Sunday Times, 14 Jan 2007

The Bush Man, The Telegraph, 6 Jan 2007

The Key to the Castle, The Times, 4 Aug 2006 

Save Lullingstone Castle, BBC Kent, 5 May 2006

Award for jungle captive's garden, BBC News, 14 Nov 2005 

The world in two acres, The Times, 31 July 2005

Botanist thinks the world of his garden, This is Local London, 26 July 2005

Jungle captive's garden designs, BBC News, 12 Oct 2004

Round the world in 8,000 species, The Observer, 11 July 2004

Beware of the orchid, The Times, 22 Feb 2003

Orchid Hunter, Nova Television, 26 Nov 2002 - read transcript here

Garden of good and evil, The Observer, 15 April 2001

'It was an orchid too far' says the collector captured by guerrillas, The Telegraph, 4 Feb 2001

Kidnap Britons describe jungle ordeal, The Guardian, 22 Dec 2000

UK hostages reunited with families, BBC News, 21 Dec 2000

Jungle kidnappers free orchid-hunting Britons, The Telegraph, 21 Dec 2001

Britons freed after nine months, The Guardian, 21 Dec 2000

Freed Britons describe Colombia kidnap terror, The Guardian, 21 Dec 2000

Botanists join search for lost Briton, The Telegraph, 23 July 2000

Mother to search for jungle son, BBC News, 16 July 2000

Fears grow for orchid hunter and friend missing in jungle, The Telegraph, 16 July 2000

 

 
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