Bob Berry (dendrologist) - Eastwoodhill Arboretum

Eastwoodhill Arboretum

Berry met Douglas Cook, the creator of Eastwoodhill Arboretum, in 1953. After Cook's death Berry helped “with identifying and labelling. In 1971, increasingly concerned at the lack of a proper catalogue, he began the huge task of locating and identifying every plant and plotting them on a grid laid over an aerial map. With (Bill) Crooks as his right-hand man, Berry produced a catalogue of some 3000 plant species and varieties and with it the proof that Eastwoodhill was worth preserving”.