Dylan Norfield

Born in Tavistock, Devon, Dylan moved around the south of the UK spending a large proportion of his childhood in South Wales.
 
After University Dylan took up a job at Bristol Botanic Garden which has a collection of over 4,000 plant species. In 1996 Dylan joined the family business, Norfield’s Nursery and began exhibiting at horticultural shows around the UK. He moved the nursery to its new premises in Llangwm, South Wales where he set up a 40-acre arboretum as a seed orchard.
 
From 2000–2005 he set up displays for Norfield’s Nursery, achieving over 30 Royal Horticultural Society Gold medals and five Chelsea Gold medals for displays of rare trees and shrubs. After a holiday to New Zealand in 2006 the decision was taken to sell the nursery move to Dunedin in the South Island of New Zealand. 
 
His initial employment in NZ was in a wholesale nursery near Dunedin, where he gained knowledge of the horticultural industry in New Zealand. In 2007 he was employed by Dunedin Botanic Garden for a year looking after the Rose and Herbaceous Collection. After six months he moved to the Geographic and Arboretum curating over 2,000 species of plants from nine geographic areas. In 2019 he took up the role of Collections Supervisor, managing the horticultural staff, operations and collections at Dunedin Botanic Garden.
 
Dylan is passionate about passing on horticultural knowledge and securing the future of rare and endangered exotic plants in New Zealand.