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Christopher Grey-Wilson English botanist, writer and former editor of The Plantsman.

Biography
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For many years, he was Chief Scientific Officer at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, working as a research botanist, and as editor of Curtis' Botanical Magazine.

In March 2002 the publication reverted to its original title (with a New Series suffix) during the editorship of botanist and author Christopher Grey-Wilson.

Happy Birthday: Christopher Grey Wilson, 68 Friday September 28 2012, 1.01am, The Times Christopher Grey-Wilson was principal scientific officer at Kew and led expeditions to Afghanistan, Iran and Nepal. He was Editor at the Alpine Garden Society for 22 years and has two more books in the pipeline. His wife Christine says that they are planning a quiet birthday, as there is disruption ahead. She explains “we’re about to downsize our house and that means packing up the plants. We can’t possibly take them all with us, unfortunately.”

Christopher Grey-Wilson has recently retired as Editor of the Alpine Garden Society after twenty-one years. Before that, from 1968-1989, he was a Principal Scientific Officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. He has travelled widely in the mountains of Europe and Asia, in particular, and as has written many books and articles over the years; Clematis, Cyclamen, Dionysia, as well as guides to European alpine plants, Mediterranean flowers, the flowers of western China and poppies. He was awarded a VMH by the Royal Horticultural Society in 2007 for ‘outstanding service to horticulture’.

Christopher Gray-Wilson has been the Editor of the Alpine Garden Society since 1990, and is also a freelance horticultural writer and photographer. For many years he was a Principal Scientific Officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, working as a Research Botanist, and as Editor of Curtis' Botanical Magazine. He has been on a number of major botanical expeditions in pursuit of the mountain floras of Europe and Asia, particularly those of the Himalaya and southwest China.

Christopher Grey-Wilson was a botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew for 22 years. He has edited Curtis's Botanical Magazine and The Plantsman in the past, and today The Alpine Gardener. He is the author of numerous books including Guide to the Flowers of Western China and The Rock Garden Plant Primer, and has been awarded five gold medals by the Royal Horticultural Society. In 2007 he was awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's highest accolade, a Victoria Medal of Honour (VMH).

Genres: Botany, Horticulture. Career: Ed, The Alpine Garden Society; freelance horticultural writer and botanist; formerly a Principal Scientific Officer (taxonomic botanist), Royal Botanic Gardens, 1968-90. Publications: Dionysia, 1970; Alpine Flowers of Britain and Europe, 1979; Impatiens of Africa, 1980; (with B. Mathew) Bulbs, 1981; (with V. Matthews) Gardening on Walls, 1983; Garden Flowers, 1986; The Genus Cyclamen, 1988; (ed.) A Manual of Alpine and Rock Garden Plants, 1988; (with M. Blamey) The Illustrated Flora of Britain and Northern Europe, 1988; (with M. Blamey) The Genus Dionysia, 1989; Mediterranean Wild Flowers, 1993; Poppies, 1993; (with V. Matthews) Gardening with Climbers, 1997; Cyclamen, 1997.

Grey-Wilson _ Christopher (1944 - x) britischer Botaniker, Gartenbauer, Fotograf, arbeitet einige Jahre mit dem BG in Kew, schrieb u.a. 'Guide to the Flowers of Western China' (mit Phillip Cribb), mit Marjorie Blamey 'Wild flowers of the Mediterranean', 'Cassell's wild flowers of Britain & Northern Europe' und 'Alpine flowers of Britain and Europe' _____ (Grey-Wilson)

Books

 * 2011 Christopher Grey-Wilson. 2011 . Guide to the Flowers of Western China. Phillip Cribb. Illustrated edition of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 504 pp. ISBN 1842461699
 * A Field Guide to the Bulbs of Greece. Front Cover. Christopher Grey-Wilson. Alpine Garden Society, 2010
 * 2009 The first rock garden plant: easy, small plants for containers, patios, and the open garden. Illustrated edition of Timber Press, 232 pp. ISBN 088192928X online
 * 2008 Wildflowers Mediterranean. Marjorie Blamey. Manuel Rotger -Cart translated. Meeting Editor Editions, 704 pp. ISBN 8428214506
 * 2004 Wild flowers of the Mediterranean. Domino guides. Marjorie Blamey, who illustrated. 2nd illustrated edition, reprinted in A & C Black, 560 pp. ISBN 0713670150
 * 2003 Cassell's wild flowers of Britain & Northern Europe . Marjorie Blamey. Ed. Cassell Illustrated, 544 pp. ISBN 030436214X
 * 2002a Clematis. Ed. Illustrated Batsford, 219 pp. ISBN 0713487267
 * 2002b Cyclamen. Ed. Illustrated Batsford, 224 pp. ISBN 0713487607
 * 2001 Mediterranean wild flowers .With Marjorie Blamey. Illustrated Christopher Grey-Wilson, Marjorie Blamey. Ed. Illustrated, reprinted Collins, 560 pp. ISBN 000710622X
 * 1995 Wild Flowers of Britain and Northwest Europe, Dorling Kindersley, 320pp. ISBN 0751310247
 * 1995 Alpine flowers of Britain and Europe. Collins pocket guide. Marjorie Blamey. 2nd ed. Illustrated HarperCollins, 240 pp. ISBN 0002200171
 * 1993 Poppies: a guide to the poppy family in the wild and in cultivation. Ed. Illustrated Batsford, 208 pp. ISBN 071346934X
 * 1983 Gardening on walls / Christopher Grey-Wilson and Victoria Matthews Collins, ISBN 0002192209
 * A Plant-hunter in Afghanistan by Christopher Grey-Wilson Based on a plant collecting expedition from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, this new title relates to a time when Afghanistan was at peace, covering an overland expedition through Europe and Turkey to Iran and Afghanistan.
 * 2014, Genus Meconopsis, The: Blue poppies and their relatives ,Imprint:Kew Publishing, ISBN13:9781842463697

Articles
The Geographical Magazine, Volume 47; Volume 47, Geographical Press, 1974, 'Himalayas: Flower that grow in Nepal', pages 378-385 Jun 2012, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol.29, 2012 Toshio Yoshida, Sun Hang and Christopher Grey‐Wilson Apr 2012, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol.29, 2012 Christopher Grey‐Wilson Mar 2011, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol.28, Christopher Grey‐Wilson, David W. H. Rankin and Wu Zhikun 835. DICRANOSTIGMA LEPTOPODUM Christopher Grey-Wilson Curtis's Botanical Magazine Vol. 33, No. 2 (June 2016), pp. 159-168 (10 pages) A Revision of Sumatran Impatiens: Studies in Balsaminaceae: VIII C. Grey-Wilson Kew Bulletin, Vol. 44, No. 1 (1989), pp. 67-106 Impatiens in Papuasia: Studies in Balsaminaceae: I C. Grey-Wilson Kew Bulletin, Vol. 34, No. 4 (1980), pp. 661-688 New Taxa in African Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) C. Grey-Wilson Kew Bulletin, Vol. 33, No. 4 (1979), pp. 641-649 Some Notes on the Flora of Iran and Afghanistan C. Grey-Wilson Kew Bulletin, Vol. 29, No. 1 (1974), pp. 19-81 Two New Taxa of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania C. Frimodt-Møller, C. Grey-Wilson Kew Bulletin, Vol. 54, No. 1 (1999), pp. 179-184 A New Species of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) from Hong Kong C. Grey-Wilson Kew Bulletin, Vol. 33, No. 4 (1979), pp. 551-553 835. DICRANOSTIGMA LEPTOPODUM: Papaveraceae Christopher Grey-Wilson Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 33, No. 2 (June 2016), pp. 159-168 834. STYLOPHORUM LASIOCARPUM: Papaveraceae Christopher Grey-Wilson Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 33, No. 2 (June 2016), pp. 151-158 A New Species of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) from Hong Kong C. Grey-Wilson Kew Bulletin, Vol. 33, No. 4 (1979), pp. 551-553 A New Hybrid Impatiens from Africa. Studies in Balsaminaceae: XII C. Grey-Wilson Kew Bulletin, Vol. 44, No. 4 (1989), pp. 717-719 700. MECONOPSIS WILSONII subsp. ORIENTALIS: Papaveraceae Christopher Grey-Wilson, David W. H. Rankin, Wu Zhikun Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 28, No. 1 (March 2011), pp. 32-33, 35-46 311. IMPATIENS KILIMANJARI subspecies POCSII: Balsaminaceae John M. Grimshaw, Christopher Grey-Wilson Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 1 (February 1997), pp. 23-30 The Impatiens appendiculata Complex in Ceylon: Studies in Balsaminaceae: IV C. Grey-Wilson Kew Bulletin, Vol. 35, No. 1 (1980), pp. 203-211
 * A REVISION OF MECONOPSIS LYRATA (CUMMINS & PRAIN) FEDDE EX PRAIN AND ITS ALLIES
 * 725. IMPATIENS SOULIEANA
 * 700. MECONOPSIS WILSONII subsp. ORIENTALIS

Honours

 * 1990 - 2013: Alpine Garden Society editor
 * Member of Linnean Society of London
 * various committees of the Royal Horticultural Society, which awarded him the gold medal Memorial Veitch
 * Victoria Medal of Honour of RHS in 2007.

Eponyms
He has been honoured with several plants been named after him. Codonopsis grey-wilsonii
 * Caryophyllaceae-Silene greywilsonii Rajbh. & Mits.Suzuki - J. Jap. Bot. 82 (5): 278 (-280; Figures 5-6.). 2007