CECILY WITHALL

Kew's first female climbing arborist since the 1980s, Cecily is part of a team that maintains the botanical garden's impressive collection of 12,000 trees

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Earliest memory of trees

Sitting on my dad's shoulders as a little girl, walking through our local woods in East Lothian, Scotland. Beech, pine, birch and maple were common in the coastal woodlands and we often collected bark, leaves and needles for the collages and Christmas wreaths that we would make on the kitchen table with my mum.

Career journey