{{Short description|British photographer and gardener}} {{For|the soap opera character|Tony Lord (One Life to Live)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}} '''Tony Lord''' is a United Kingdom gardener, photographer and author. In 2005 the Royal Horticultural Society awarded him the Victoria Medal of Honour (V.M.H) for his work as a garden photographer, horticultural consultant and writer.<ref name="RHS-Fin-2005">{{Cite web|title=Trustees' Annual Report and Consolidated Financial Statements 2005/06 |publisher=Royal Horticultural Society |url=http://www.rhs.org.uk/about/pdf/trusteesreport.pdf |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060827135728/http://www.rhs.org.uk/about/pdf/trusteesreport.pdf |archivedate=27 August 2006 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="RHS-awards-2005">{{Cite web|title=RHS honours four with horticulture's highest accolade |date=1 July 2005 |publisher=Royal Horticultural Society |url=http://www.rhs.org.uk/news/pressreleases/rhsawards010705.asp |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051120235301/http://www.rhs.org.uk/news/pressreleases/rhsawards010705.asp |archivedate=20 November 2005 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
Lord started out as a social anthropologist. In Micronesia, he studied the connections between nature and indigenous peoples, and became very interested in plants and their interactions.<ref>[http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/gt_other/article/0,,diy_13865_4685283,00.html "Tony Lord: The ''Avant'' gardener – Eclectic gardener Tony Lord has a way with the weird"]{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} from "Pest Detectives, Fruit Trees, Weird Gardening and More" ''Dirt On Gardening'' episode DDOG-107 (2007), DIY Network {{Dead link|date=April 2011}}</ref>
Lord received his gardening training at Kew Gardens, holds a doctorate in horticulture, and later was the Gardens Adviser for the British National Trust.<ref>Ireland, Carolyn (22 August 2008) "Gardens à la carte; The former gardens adviser to Britain's National Trust provides a selection of menu options for the amateur horticulturalist" ''The Globe and Mail'' (Canada) p. G-8</ref> For over ten years he has edited the Royal Horticultural Society annual publication ''Plant Finder'', and he is a regular contributor to the magazine ''The Garden''.
Lord's first book, ''Best Borders'',<ref>Lord, Tony (1994) ''Best Borders'' Viking, New York, NY {{ISBN|0-670-85407-7}} ;</ref> won the Garden Writers' Guild award for the best general gardening book of 1994. His book ''Gardening at Sissinghurst''<ref>Lord, Tony (1995) ''Gardening at Sissinghurst'' Macmillan, New York, NY, {{ISBN|0-02-860389-3}} ;</ref> took a new and deeper approach to garden analysis<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEFDF1439F935A25755C0A960958260 Galitzki, Dora (1996) "Books: Gardening" ''New York Times'' 16 June 1996];</ref> and has been translated into German, French and Dutch.
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