News of the death of a snowdrop enthusiast with many RHS connections :
From the RHS .....
Timothy Whiteley was a member of RHS Council, a member of the Woody Plant Committee (and a Friend of the Committee from 2013), and a member of the Picture Committee . In addition he served short terms on the Affiliated Societies, Gardens, Horticultural Halls, Publications, RHS Enterprises, and Wisley Advisory Committees. He was Chairman of the Lily Group Committee from 1996 to 2006.
He was a plantsman with an expert knowledge of many trees and shrubs, as well as an enthusiastic grower of snowdrops and lilies (he supervised the International Lily Conference in 2004). He was the holder of the National Collection of Euonymus at his woodland garden at Evenley Wood in Northamptonshire. He was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal in 2004, the Lyttel Lily Cup in 2011, and also the OBE.
