The 2023 Pearson Memorial Medal for outstanding service of process to the garden diligence has been awarded to Stan Green , Director of Growforth Ltd , Chairman of Horticultural Trades Association ( HTA ) Scotland Policy Development Group and former President of the HTA .
Alan Down , HTA President , articulate : " choose the recipient of the Pearson Memorial Medal this class was easygoing ! Stan Green was the obvious and outstanding choice because of the especial work he has done to promote gardening .
" Stan has worked indefatigably in Scotland and throughout the whole of the UK to get the substance across to regime , political leader and whoever will listen that horticulture count ! This includes helping to successfully launch the HTA ’s Scottish Environmental Horticulture Strategy earlier this year . As a former United States President of the HTA , current chairman of the HTA Scottish Horticulture Policy Development Group , a major force behind Scotland ’s Garden Trust , and one of the founder of the charity Trellis , it is hard to know how he find prison term to run his successful Growforth business , but somehow , he does . “Stan set up Growforth Ltd in Dunfermline in 1990 after spending sentence as a nursery managing director follow university . Growforth serves the horticultural trade throughout Scotland and the north of England , with a potent focus on environmental sustainability . Stan has had a long and illustrious career in Scots gardening , starting behind the scenes at Beechgrove Garden before serving as HTA President and Chairman of the HTA Board from 2013 - 2015 . He was grant the Scottish Horticultural Silver Medal for contributions to Horticulture in 2017 .
On winning the awarding , Stan Green say : " It stand for so much . It ’s great to get recognition from my peers . I ’m motivated by the path you could see the difference that environmental horticulture create to everyone . This was accelerated during Covid as people began to reconnect with nature . I also see that connexion to nature with the joy of my untried granddaughter when she is in the garden . Horticulture is a howling product and a tremendous industry to be in , it makes a dispute to people . It push the same buttons as music and summercater , and more people are need to get involved , and that ’s why I screw doing what I do . Horticulture is its own wages . "
The Pearson Memorial Medal for outstanding service to the garden industry has been present by the HTA on an annual foundation since it was set off in 1930 in computer memory of the HTA ’s first General Secretary , Charles Pearson . The 2022 medallion was awarded to Jim Butress , with previous receiver in late years include Mark Gregory and Adam WIgglesworth .
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