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 Graham Rice  (b. 29 November 1950, Surrey, England) is an international garden writer, author, journalist and photographer. He has published over two dozen horticultural books, including The Royal Horticultural Society's Encyclopedia of Perennials (co-published in the United States by the American Horticultural Society), which is one of the most comprehensive books on perennial plants, with over 5,000 entries; it was honored with the British Garden Media Guild (GMG) Laurent-Perrier Award for Reference Book of The Year in 2007. Rice is a two-time winner of GMG Book of the Year; the first was for Hardy Perennials in 1996. His blog, Transatlantic Plantsman, won the Garden Media Guild Blog of the Year in 2014.

A respected plantsman, Graham Rice is a graduate of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, and was for many years a judge for the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), judging at the Chelsea Flower Show in London and the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. A long-time member of the Royal Horticultural Society Plant Committee, he judges trials of hardy herbaceous and annual flowers at the RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey, and helps assess the RHS Award of Garden Merit.

A prolific writer, he served as Gardening Correspondent for Britain's Observer and the London Evening Standard, as Gardening Editor for the Daily Mail, and has penned for The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph,  and The Independent newspapers. Rice has been published in the top gardening magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, including a current weekly series in Amateur Gardening, a monthly series in BBC Gardeners' World, as well as writing for Gardens Illustrated, The English Garden, Garden Design, Horticulture, The American Gardener, Country Life, and Rodale's Organic Gardening and Rodale's Organic Life. He was a regular columnist for Garden News and Garden Answers magazines, and an editor at Practical Gardening. He is a frequent contributor to the garden magazines of the Royal Horticultural Society – The Garden and The Plantsman.

A transatlantic horticulturist who had been domiciled in both Britain and the United States, his blog, originally called Transatlantic Plantsman and now titled Transatlantic Gardener, is, according to the Garden Media Guild judges who named it 2014 Blog of the Year, "an entertaining, informative and witty account of the blogger’s gardening exploits on both sides of the Atlantic – at his homes in Pennsylvania, USA, and rural Northamptonshire ...Graham Rice has a deep interest in all things horticultural and his passion for the subject is evident from his writing, which has the ability to draw you into his world. This is a blog you can trust when you are wanting to know the latest about all things plants – no matter what side of the Atlantic you are on." Rice has a regular New Plants blog for the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), writes monthly features for the RHS website, has contributed to Richard Jackson's Garden, and blogs Plant Talk for the UK-based seed and plant company, Mr. Fothergill's.

Writing style

Gardens Illustrated called his work "…delightfully poetic, with references to poets and authors …[and] the literary quality and originality of writers like E. A. Bowles, Gertrude Jekyll and Christopher Lloyd."

"What is truly remarkable about Mr. Rice is his knowledge of the American horticultural scene, past and present ...[His writing] is chatty, informal, and shot through with wit and good humor, but it is also thoroughly well-informed. Rice is a genuine connoisseur who knows his plants from keen observation, and he conveys his knowledge in an extremely congenial and winning way." - |title=Allen&#x20;Lacy|work=The&#x20;New&#x20;York&#x20;Times|accessdate=1&#x20;January&#x20;2016 Allen Lacy,Homeground

Garden Photography

Garden images by Graham Rice have appeared in many magazines, newspapers, and books.

Radio

Since 2014, Graham Rice has been the host of the weekly radio music show, The Wagonload of Monkeys, which highlights British and Irish folk music, on WJFF 90.5FM public radio in the USA. Previous to that, he created and hosted The BritMix on that station, a weekly show featuring British rock music, which ran from 2007 to 2014.

Environmental Interests

With a strong commitment to environmental issues, Graham Rice served on the Board of Trustees of the 510-acre Lacawac Sanctuary nature preserve in Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania; its glacial Lake Lacawac was designated a National Natural Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior. He also was Programmer of the EnviroFest Film Salon for the Black Bear Film Festival in Milford, Pennsylvania, which was hosted at the U.S. Forest Service's Grey Towers National Historic Site. He has a particular interest in the detrimental effects of deer browsing on forest habitats, and in 2005 was honored with a writing award from the American Association of Garden Communicators (formerly the American Garden Writers Association) on that subject.

Honors & Awards
 * Garden Media Guild Award for Garden Blog of the Year for TransatlanticGardener.com (2014)
 * International Contributor Award, US Perennial Plant Association (2010)


 * Garden Media Guild Laurent-Perrier Award for Reference Book Of The Year: Royal Horticultural Society's Encyclopedia of Perennials (2007).
 * Garden Media Guild (aka The British Garden Writer's Guild) Award for Book of the Year (1996): Hardy Perennials
 * Garden Media Guild (aka The British Garden Writer's Guild) Award for Writer of the Year (Trade Magazines) (1997): A series of articles on new bedding plants in Horticulture Week.
 * Garden Writers Association of America Quill & Trowel Award for Writing for the Web (2001): "The Transatlantic Gardener" for Homestore.com.
 * Garden Writers Association of America Garden Globe Award of Achievement (2003): "Purple Foliage" in The American Gardener.
 * Garden Writers Association of America Garden Globe Award of Achievement (2005): "Bambi, or Buzz Saw?" in Notes from the Forest.

Books by Graham Rice
 * Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Perennials (DK 2006) ISBN 978-1405334310
 * American Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Perennials (DK 2006) ISBN 978-0756613433
 * Powerhouse Plants (Timber Press 2013) ISBN 978-1604692105
 * Planting the Dry Shade Garden (Timber Press 2011) 978-1604691870
 * All-in-One Garden (Cassell 2006) 978-1844034512
 * The Ultimate Book of Small Gardens (Cassell Illustrated 2004) 978-1844031504
 * The Sweet Pea Book (Timber Press 2003) 978-0881925951
 * Hellebores: An introductory guide from the Royal Horticultural Society (Mitchell Beazley 2003) 978-1845333812
 * Discovering Annuals (Frances Lincoln 1999) 978-0711212930, Timber Press 2001) 978-0881924657
 * The Planting Planner (Macmillan 1996) 978-0333600665
 * Reader's Digest Complete Book of Perennials (Reader's Digest 1996) 978-0895778253
 * Hardy Perennials (Viking 1995) 978-0670843718
 * Gardening with Flowers (1994)
 * The Gardener's Guide to Growing Hellebores (with Elizabeth Strangman, Timber Press 1993) 978-0881925951
 * RHS Wisley Handbook: Bedding Plants (Cassell/Royal Horticultural Society 1993) 978-0304320257
 * RHS Wisley Handbook: Herbaceous Perennials (Cassell Illustrated 1992) 978-030432027 1
 * The Complete Small Garden (Pan Books Ltd, 1991) 978-0333481004
 * Garden Flowers from Seed (with Christopher Lloyd, Penguin Putnam 1991) 978-0670824557
 * Perfect Plants (Anaya Publishers 1990) 978-1854700407
 * Plants for Problem Places (Timber Press 1988) 978-0747028055
 * Pruning and Pest Control (with Alan Titschmarsh) Octopus 1987) 978-1850511755
 * Handbook of Annuals and Bedding Plants (Batsford Ltd 1986) 978-0709922773
 * Gardening for Beginners (Ward Lock 1985) 978-0706362664
 * Pruning (Mandarin Publishers 1982) 978-0862730079

e-books
 * Plants for Problem Places: 1 – Clay Soil ASIN: B003Z4K4UO
 * Plants for Problem Places: 2 – Wet Soil ASIN: B00BUTY9YI
 * Planting the Dry Shade Garden ASIN: B0071LIRN8
 * The Sweet Pea Book ASIN: B00T9O2K9W

External Links

Graham Rice's Official site

Royal Horticultural Society's New Plants Blog

[http://blog.mr-fothergills.co.uk/category/plant-talk-with-graham-rice/ Plant Talk with Graham Rice@Mr. Fothergill's]

Twitter

Timber Press Author

The Wagonload of Monkeys radio show

The BritMix radio show

WJFF Radio Catskill 90.5fm

Imdb

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