Tom Hart Dyke
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Thomas Guy Hart Dyke 12 April 1976 |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Horticulturist, author, plant hunter |
Thomas Guy Hart Dyke (born 12 April 1976) is an English horticulturist, author and plant hunter from the Hart Dyke family. He is the son and heir of Guy and Sarah Hart Dyke at the family seat of Lullingstone Castle, Eynsford, Kent. He is the designer of the World Garden of Plants located on the property. The World Garden contains approximately 8,000 species of plants, many collected by Hart Dyke from their native environments. He presented an episode of Great British Garden Revival in 2013.
Hart Dyke attended a state primary school in Eynsford and then transferred to St. Michael's School in Otford. He attended Stanbridge Earls in Hampshire until age seventeen and then entered Sparsholt College Hampshire, near Winchester, where he studied tree surgery and forestry.
In an interview in 2006, Hart Dyke credits his grandmother as having first interested him in plants at age three.
Tom Hart Dyke is first cousin of the English comedian Miranda Hart and nephew of Captain David Hart Dyke CBE LVO RN,commanding officer of HMS Coventry when it was sunk by the Argentinians in the 1982 Falklands conflict.
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