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President - Paddy Mackie

March 2019 - NIHGT are please to announce the appointment of Mr Paddy Mackie as our President

Chairman - Terence Reeves-Smyth email: terence.reeves-smyth@nihgc.org [operational soon]

Terence Reeves-Smyth is the Senior Inspector in the NIEA: Historic Monuments
Unit. He has published extensively in the fields of Archaeology, Garden and Architectural History, and lectures frequently throughout Ireland.

Honorary Treasurer - Mike Burrows B.A., F.C.A.   Photo to follow - Mike is married with 3 children. He is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied Business Studies. He then qualified as a Chartered Accountant in Belfast, after which he joined the company Moffett Thallon and Co. Ltd. Mike became the MD of the company and acquired ownership of it. The company became a leading manufacturer, distributor and retailer of Doors and Architectural Ironmongery. He is involved in several other companies in the building and property trades. He has been an active member of various charitable organisations, currently a director of Men Against Cancer. Mike and his wife have restored Killaire House, a grade II listed dwelling, over the past years, and during that process have become enthusiastic gardeners.

Honorary Secretary - Jackie Harte -  Principal Landscape Architect at Soltys Brewster Consulting, Belfast, United Kingdom additional Biog & Photo to follow

Committee Members

Reg Maxwell  - email: reg.maxwell@nihgc.org

Reg Maxwell is a retired Area Manager Belfast Parks Department-Belfast City Council Reg has over fifty years horticultural experience. He retired a few years ago from BCC where he worked within the Parks Department for thirty-eight years. During this period he exhibited and won at the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show,London. As well as undertaking lectures on various horticultural topics at national and international levels he also makes regular contributions to various magazines and publications. Reg is a regular voice on the radio as a member of the Gardeners Corner team at BBC NI.

Trevor Edwards - email: trevor.edwards@nihgc.org

(NIHGC Web site & Social Media Master) 

Trevor is a lifelong self employed Horticulturist who now focuses his efforts on Garden Design, Project Management, and Garden Restoration. Trevor has lectured on the Gardens of Ireland in many parts of the world. He has featured in and presented gardening Television and Radio programs. He is a member of the Garden Writers Association and contributes regularly to various magazine and tourism publications. He has managed Garden Tours in Ireland, UK, Europe, USA and New Zealand. He is often consulted matters relating to Garden Tourism. Trevor frequently works as a Gardens Tour Manager with Brightwater Holidays for garden tours worldwide. Trevor is a Freeman of the City of London & a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Gardeners. He has been a committee member of the National Trust's 'Ulster Gardens Scheme' (UGS) for many years. He is also a Past Director of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society (UAHS). He was Chairman of the UAHS Membership & Marketing Committee. He has taken a special interest in the Web Pages and Social Media for the UGS & UAHS.

 

Tracy Hamilton - Tracy and her husband Martin own the historic Ringdufferin House and Garden, near Killyleagh in Co. Down. Tracy is a director of the award winning Mash Direct Ltd. Tracy is a member of the Irish Tree Society.

Finola Reid - Finola is a highly respected garden historian with an encyclopaedic knowledge of Irish garden history, a TV garden show presenter, director of The Historical Gardens of Ireland and a member of the board of The Irish Heritage Council

Dr. John A. McCullen, one of the country's foremost experts on the history of the Phoenix Park and was resident OPW Superintendent of the Park 1984 - 2012. See "Publications" section on this web site.

Dr Mark Johnston MBE - Mark is an independent scholar with over forty years experience in the greenspace industry, including working as a tree officer in local government, consultant in private practice, government adviser and university academic. He holds a PhD in urban forestry from the University of Ulster and his research now focuses on historic urban landscapes. Although originally from London, Mark is based in Belfast where he has lived since the early 1990s. In 2007, he was appointed MBE in recognition of his services to trees and the urban environment. In 2009, Mark became the first British person to receive the Award of Merit from the International Society of Arboriculture. He is author of Trees in Towns and Cities: A History of British Urban Arboriculture, published in 2015, and Street Trees in Britain: A History, published in 2017.

Jonathan Jackson - BSc Arboriculture and Urban Forestry: Owner of Papervale Trees. Papervale Trees is a specialist tree nursery based in Co.Down producing a wide range of Home Grown standard and unusual containerised trees in peat-free compost. 

Susan Scott - Member of Irish Tree Soc & Int Dendrologists Soc. Owner of Florestina - Irish artisan florist creating natural garden style flowers for weddings & events - details to follow asap

Doreen Wilson - details to follow asap

Claire Woods - Gardens Manager at HRP Hillsborough Castle Gardens -more details to follow asap

Michael Lear - Landscape Architect/ Board Trustee KEW - more details to folllow asap

Company Directors & Charity Trustees:
Trevor Edwards
Mark Johnston
Tracy Hamilton
Terence Reeves-Smyth
Jackie Harte (2020)
Michael Burrows (2020)