Andrea Brunsendorf

Andrea Brunsendorf is a gardener, horticulturalist and landscaper. She was born in Thuringia in Germany, and gained a degree in Ornamental Horticulture in Erfurt.^[1] She was an apprentice at the seedbreeder N. L. Chrestensen in Erfurt und then worked for Kakteen-Haage in the same town afterwards.^[2] She holds an MA in Conservation from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. She has worked at a variety of international gardens including Kirstenbosch in South Africa, Kew Gardens where she gained a diploma in botanical horticulture; the ancient gardens of the Inner Temple, where she was its first female head gardener in 2007; and Longwood Gardens where she became the director of outdoor landscapes.^[3][4] Since June 2022 she is head gardener of Lowther Castle in Cumbria,^[5] where she looks after the gardens designed by Dan Pearson in 2007.^[6]

References

1. Gillian Mawrey, ed. (May 2018), "Longwood Diary" (PDF), Historic Gardens Newsletter, no. 48, archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-08-30
2. Ulrich Haage, https://cactusblog.de/andrea-turft-in-london/
3. Ina Sperl (20 March 2018), "England ist ein klein bisschen selbstgefällig", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
4. Robin Lane Fox (16 February 2018), "Inn good taste: Andrea Brunsendorf's Inner Temple garden", Financial Times
5. Giles Brown, New head gardener for Lowther Castle. Cumbriacrack, 17/05/2022
6. https://www.gardensillustrated.com/news/andrea-brunsendorf-gardener-lowther-castle Veronica Peerless, Andrea Brunsendorf appointed head gardener at Lowther Castle. Gardens Illustrated 18. May 2022