This King’s Birthday Weekend has come with the outstanding news that former long-term Pukeiti curator and director, Graham Smith, has been made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Check out the lovely write-up in the Taranaki Daily News.
Congratulations Graham, after decades of commitment, to Pukeiti and to rhododendrons, it’s an honour extraordinarily well deserved.
For a full write-up on Graham’s history at Pukeiti, you can also read a transcript of his 2018 Banks Memorial Lecture: “Please sir, I want to work with plants” – and look where that ended up!
