Daniel J. Hinkley

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Daniel John Hinkley is an American plantsman, garden writer, horticulturist and nurseryman. He is best known for establishing Heronswood Nursery, in Kingston, Washington; and Windcliff, on the Kitsap Peninsula near Indianola, WA; [1] and for collecting, propagating, and naming varieties of plants new to the North American nursery trade. [2]

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Having had an interest in botany and gardening from childhood, Dan Hinkley earned his Bachelor of Science in Ornamental Horticulture, and Horticulture Education, from Michigan State University in 1976. He went on to graduate school at the University of Washington, where he accomplished a Master of Science degree in Urban Horticulture in 1985.

Hinkley was an instructor of horticulture at Edmonds Community College, in Edmonds, Washington, from 1987 to 1996.

In 1987 Hinkley began gardening on the land that would become Heronswood with his partner, the architect Robert L. Jones. By the mid-1990s Heronswood Nursery was doing a thriving mail-order business, and the display garden tours gained international acclaim. Hinkley became a regular speaker at seminars offered during the Northwest Flower and Garden Show.

In 2000, Hinkley and Jones sold the business, and display gardens, to Burpee Seeds, but continued to run the nursery. Hinkley and Jones moved to a residence separate from the nursery in Indianola, Washington.

By 2001 the Heronswood catalog included over 2,400 plants, and the gardens at Heronswood had 10,000 species. Many had been raised from seed collected by Hinckley during expeditions in Asia, and other remote exploratory travels. [3] Within the Heronswood catalog, Hinkley would often write detailed essays about the people and places where he first encountered the plants, his adventures abroad, and also the desirable benefits the plants offered to the plant enthusiast. Considerable effort was given to the responsible collection of seeds, and also to evaluating prospective plants for risk of bio-invasion if offered into cultivation. [4]

In May 2006, George Ball, President of Burpee and Company, closed the Kingston location. [5]

In 2012 the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe bought the long neglected and overgrown Heronswood at auction and brought Hinkley back as a consultant to oversee its restoration, eventually appointing him Director of the garden that he had founded. Many plants were lost over the years of neglect, but many important collections were recovered, and many new plants collected during Hinkley's explorations of China, Vietnam, Chile, Myanmar, New Zealand and Tasmania have been given new homes in the garden. [6]

Mr. Hinkley also continues his work at his estate, Windcliff, on a bluff above Puget Sound on the Kitsap Peninsula.

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Notes

  1. ↑ Pacific Horticulture; vol 69 num 3, 2008, p. 31-34.
  2. ↑ World-famous Heronswood Nursery closes; Seattle Post-Intelligencer May 31, 2006
  3. ↑ Seeds of success: From Kingston to Nepal, a plant explorer's journey to fame Pacific Northwest Magazine, 2002.
  4. ↑ Daniel J. Hinkley; Timber Press.
  5. ↑ Paradise lost: Heronswood uprooted; Seattle Times; June 1, 2006.
  6. ↑ Heronswood Garden

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