Sibbaldia Guest Essay: Obsession is Good

Abstract

Timothy Walker joined the staff of the University of Oxford Botanic Garden in August 1980 as a trainee gardener. After short periods of training at Askam Bryan College, Windsor Great Park and RBG Kew he returned to Oxford in January 1986 as General Foreman. In July 1988 he was elected to the Ernest Cook Lecturership in Plant Conservation at Somerville College Oxford. He is now Director of the Garden, a post that involves a mixture of teaching, administration and fund raising.