Tim Entwisle

Professor Tim Entwisle is an author, botanist and former botanic gardens director at three of the world’s top botanic gardens.

Tim contributes regularly to Australian radio, print and social media, including a long running series on plant curiosities for Gardening Australia Magazine. For ten years, Tim was a regular on ABC RN’s Blueprint for Living, with his seasonal walks through Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria with host Jonathan Green, a listener favourite. He also wrote and co-hosted two summer series of Talking Plants, Australia’s first and only national gardening magazine show on radio.

Tim’s recently published 'Evergreen: The Botanical Life of a Plant Punk', was described by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki as ‘a surprising tour of the inner workings of a champion of public gardens’. In that memoir, he describes many of the gardens and countries he visited as a botanic garden director and what it takes for a botanic garden to be among the best in the world. Tim currently chairs the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust in Sydney, after heading up Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria for ten years, following two years in a senior role at Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in London, and eight as head of Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust in Sydney. Tim is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at The University of Melbourne with a broad interest in algae, plants and public gardens.