Polly Nicholson

POLLY NICHOLSON is a tulip specialist, keen environmentalist and the founder of Bayntun Flowers, a small organic flower farm in Wiltshire, southwest England. Passionate about tulips, she has been growing species, historic and annual garden varieties for over fifteen years and holds the National Collection of Tulipa (historic) with Plant Heritage. Nicholson grew up in the countryside near Bath and read English literature with medieval studies at the University of Exeter before obtaining a diploma in horticulture from the English Gardening School at Chelsea Physic Garden in 2003. Prior to establishing Bayntun Flowers, she was an antiquarian book specialist at Sotheby’s in London. Nicholson is an active member of Flowers from the Farm, a trustee of Benton End House & Garden in Suffolk and has acted as horticultural adviser for several Phaidon publications.