Mick Crawley

Mick is a member of the RHS Science Committee and Vice Chairman of the Woody Plant Committee. He is Professor of Plant Ecology at Imperial College London and a member of the RHS since 1979. He is Chair of the Science Committee of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, Royal Society representative on the Advisory Committee of Chelsea Physic Garden, and has twice been a Trustee of Kew Gardens.

Mick’s horticultural specialities are trees and daffodils, and his research interests lie in the ecology of gardens – in the competitive relationships between crops and weeds, in the symbiotic effects of pollinators and mycorrhizal fungi, and the relations between plants and their pests and diseases.