Growing Flowers from Seed in Canada

Ronald Robertson was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1933 and graduated BSc(Forestry) at Aberdeen University in 1954. After National Service as an instructor in the Royal Army Educational Corps, he worked for the Ghana Forest Department as an Assistant Conservator of Forests from 1957 - 1961. In 1962 he graduated from the Aberdeen College of Education with a Teacher's Certificate and then worked as a Forestry Officer with the Northern Nigerian Forest Service for three years. He taught school in Shetland Isles for one year and then immigrated to Nova Scotia in 1966, where he has lived since, working as a forester with the Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forests, until retirement in 1991. During his years with Lands and Forests he worked in Silviculture and Extension Divisions, and wrote a number of technical publications relating to Silviculture. He taught a Forest Management Course at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College for a number of years. Wherever located, he has always been interested in flower gardening and took it up seriously in 1986. Married to Heather, he has 2 sons, 1 stepson, 3 stepdaughters and has lived in Truro since 1966.