Nick Macer

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Nick Macer from Stroud is best known as a specialist nurseryman and owner of Pan Global Plants, Gloucestershire, UK, but also as a presenter on BBC's regular gardening show, Gardeners World, where he looked at gardens specializing in hardy exotics during the autumn of 2016. [1]

After, in his own words, a 'rebellious youth', he took a three-year course in arboriculture at Merrist Wood College. Then with a bank loan he started Pan-global Plants in 1997, now based in Frampton-on-Severn. [2] He has travelled the world [3] to find plants for his unique nursery which supplies plants to many significant gardens throughout the UK including the RHS, National Trust and Buckingham Palace. [4]

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References

  1. "Gardeners' World goes hour long".
  2. "A very rare breed: Plantsman Nick Macer fills his eclectic nursery" . 10 May 2013. Archived from the original on 2022-06-20.
  3. "Britain's top nurseries: Pan-Global Plants".
  4. "Schoolboy dropout turned plant expert Nick Macer lands new role as presenter on BBC Gardeners' World".