David Wheeler (gardener and journalist)
# David Wheeler (gardener and journalist)

David Wheeler (1945) is a British gardener, writer and journalist. He founded the literary gardening quarterly Hortus in 1987 and continues as its editor. In 2009 the Royal Horticultural Society awarded him their Gold Veitch Memorial Medal.

## Early life and education

Wheeler grew up on the Hampshire coast with an early interest in plants and gardens. As a teenager, he bought Amateur Gardening and Popular Gardening, 'concealing them the best I could - boys in the late Fifties and swinging Sixties didn't buy gardening magazines,' he told the Oldie.

## Career

In 1987, Wheeler founded the gardening quarterly Hortus without any public subsidy or support. Marking its 25 years in 2012, the Washington Post wrote, 'Hortus is the size of a slim paperback but printed on heavy, ivory colored stock and illustrated with line drawings and wood engravings... It produces tactile and aesthetic pleasures once taken for granted and now made acute by their rarity. Wheeler has a motto that Hortus “is for gardeners who read and readers who garden.”' With more than 2,000 subsribers, it is Telegraph's one of the best gardening magazines to read.

In 1993, Wheeler and his partner, Simon Dorrell, moved to Bryan’s Ground, an Arts and Crafts house near Presteigne, Powys, where they created an extensive garden featuring yew and box topiary, formal parterres, canals, wisteria-garlanded terraces and several buildings and follies created by Simon. It has been described as one of the 10 of the best secret gardens in Britain by Country Life. BBC Gardens Illustrated called it an 'idyllic, quintessentially English garden'.

Wheeler contributes frequently to several other British and foreign newspapers and periodicals. In 2009 the Royal Horticultural Society awarded him their coveted Gold Veitch Memorial Medal.

## Publications

By Pen & by Spade: An Anthology of Garden Writing from Hortus, published by Summit Books, 1990

The Generous Garden: A Second Anthology of Garden Writing from Hortus, published by A. Sutton, 1991

Panoramas of English Gardens, published by Little, Brown, 1991

Over the Hills from Broadway: Images of Cotswold Gardens, illustrated by Simon Dorrell, published by Alan Sutton, 1991

The Penguin Book of Garden Writing, published by Viking, 1996

Glyndebourne: A Garden for All Seasons, illustrated by Simon Dorrell, published by Bryansground Press, 2000

Hortus Revisited: A Twenty-first Birthday Anthology, published by Frances Lincoln, 2008

## External Links

Hortus website

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* ↑ Keel, Toby (2019-10-05). "Britain's top landscape architects on how to make your garden fit perfectly into the world around it". Country Life. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
* ↑ Gardens Illustrated. John Brown Pub. 2007.
* ↑ Bradley-Hole, Kathryn (2021-04-25). "Leaving the garden we created 30 years ago isn't easy". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
* ↑ "Great gardening couples - David Wheeler". The Oldie. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
* ↑ Wheeler, David (1990). By Pen & by Spade: An Anthology of Garden Writing from Hortus. Summit Books. ISBN 978-0-671-74274-4.
* ↑ Wheeler, David (1991). The Generous Garden: A Second Anthology of Garden Writing from Hortus. A. Sutton. ISBN 978-0-86299-997-1.
* ↑ Wheeler, David (1991). Panoramas of English Gardens. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0-316-93251-6.
* ↑ Wheeler, David (1991). Over the Hills from Broadway: Images of Cotswold Gardens. Alan Sutton. ISBN 978-0-86299-793-9.
* ↑ Wheeler, David (1996). The Penguin Book of Garden Writing. Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-85755-5.
* ↑ Wheeler, David (2000). Glyndebourne: A Garden for All Seasons. Bryansground Press. ISBN 978-0-9538230-0-0.
* ↑ Wheeler, David (2008). Hortus Revisited: A Twenty-first Birthday Anthology. Frances Lincoln. ISBN 978-0-7112-2738-5.
* ↑ "HORTUS". www.hortus.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-07-25.
