Silke Strickrodt
2022 - Today
Silke is a horticulturist in Kew Gardens's Tropical Nursery, where she works with the arid collections.
Silke joined Kew in 2018 to study for the Kew Diploma in Horticulture (C56) and graduated in September 2021.
She was her cohort's representative in the Kew Guild and has been a member of the Kew Guild Awards Committee since 2019. Becoming a Trustee in 2022, Silke remains an important member of the Kew Guild board.
Previously, she worked as a historian, specialising in African history and the history of Afro-European encounters. In 2016, she decided to change careers and trained as a landscape gardener in Berlin. Her botanical and horticultural interests are wide-ranging; just now she is obsessed with sansevierias, aloes, Araceae and dry gardens.