Pippa Greenwood


Pippa Greenwood is an English plant pathologist. She appears frequently on the BBC's long running Gardeners' World television programme and has been a regular panellist on Gardeners' Question Time on BBC Radio 4 since 1994. She also was the gardening consultant on the ITV series Rosemary and Thyme in 2003–2006.

Qualifications and career

Greenwood studied at Durham University, where she trained as a botanist. She went on to gain an MSc in crop protection at Reading University in the 1980s. For eleven years she ran the Royal Horticultural Society's Plant Pathology Department at Wisley.
In 2007, Greenwood made a return visit to Durham University, where she was awarded an honorary doctorate.
Pippa Greenwood lives in Hampshire.