Christine Walkden awarded Honorary Doctorate Degree

[Paul Scott-Bates]

We are delighted to confirm that our Patron, Christine Walkden, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree of the University of Essex. We are sure you will all share our sincere congratulations to Christine.

Below is a copy of the citation.

Honorary Doctorate Degree - Citation - Christine Walkden

The Senate of the University of Essex has great pleasure in accepting the recommendation of the Academic Board of Writtle College to award Christine
Walkden an Honorary Doctorate Degree.

Christine’s passion for horticulture blossomed at an early age of just 10 when she first obtained an allotment and started growing vegetables and flowers, Since then,
she has gone on to become one of the most celebrated horticulturalists in the
UK. Now, a household name, Christine is
known to millions through her regular appearances on the BBC’s The One Show,
Gardeners’ World and her own series, ‘Christine’s Garden’.

Writtle College is proud to count Christine amongst its alumni. Christine studied at the College in the early 1980s and has gone on to lecture nationally and
internationally. She has returned as principal guest at a number of the
College’s Award Ceremonies and as a distinguished speaker, giving visiting
lectures.

In recognition of her services to horticulture, it gives Writtle College much pleasure to confer on Christine Walkden an Honorary Doctorate Degree of the
University of Essex.

Christine is pictured here with Peter Seabrook, the British gardening writer and television broadcaster. He is well known for his work on the long running BBC gardening programme, Gardeners' World.