steven coghill, born 1961
horticulturalist
Steven Coghill, the Head Gardener of King’s College Cambridge, describes his career in horticulture. This included lecturing at horticultural college, and managing the gardens at two great estates: Braxted Park and Glemham Hall. His work at King’s College Cambridge has included the creation of a new garden as a setting for the memorial to the renowned Chinese poet Xu Zhimo. One of Xu Zhimo’s most famous poems was ‘Remembering Cambridge’.
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Source: A re-formatted transcript of an interview by Prof. Alan Macfarlane, reproduced with the permission of Steven Coghill and Prof. Macfarlane in 2020.