Island Life Magazine Ltd August/September 2010 | Page 100
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Island Life - August/September 2010
Botanic Garden adventure still good
enough to keep Simon on Island
By Peter White
Simon Goodenough likens his job as
charity funding and donations to keep
know it is a special place that can grow
curator of the Ventnor Botanic Gardens
it in bloom. Simon, 55, said: “We are
an amazing array of plants.”
to being on a roller coaster.
running it on a shoestring, and it is not
Simon’s wife Deb was former head
He arrived in 1986, setting himself
the Cou