Career
At the age of 27, Wong became the presenter of his own television series Grow Your Own Drugs. The award-winning BBC Two series demonstrates a number of natural remedies sourced from plants, and soon became the highest-rated gardening series on UK television. At the time of writing the show has run to two seasons, as well as a one-off Christmas special, Grow Your Own Christmas. Wong's first two books that tied-in with each series of the television show became international best-sellers, with his third title "Homegrown Revolution" becoming the fastest selling gardening book in UK history.
Wong is also a regular reporter on the hit BBC One rural affairs series Countryfile since its reformatting in April 2009 as well as the celebrated UK food series "Our Food". He has also appeared in a BBC documentary film of the making of his 2010 Chelsea garden "James Wong and the Malaysian Garden" as well as BBC's Gardeners' World, The Delicious Miss Dahl, and Sky One's "The People's Rainforest".
In his capacity as a garden designer, he has become a four-time Royal Horticultural Society RHS medal winner for gardens he co-designed through the design studio he co-founded, Amphibian Designs, at the Chelsea Flower Show and the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. In his first garden the 2004 Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, he became the youngest-ever medal-winning designer at the event, and is currently the youngest 5-time RHS medal winner.
Wong has designed an Ethnobotanical Garden for the University of Kent, where he is a guest lecturer.
His research has taken him to highland Ecuador, as well as to China and Java.
Read more about this topic: James Wong (ethnobotanist)
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