RHS Honors John Creech
John Creech, a plant explorer, member of the North Carolina Arboretum Board of Directors and an ARS member, has been awarded the gold Veitch Memorial Medal for 1991 from the Council of the Royal Horticultural Society of Great Britain.
The Veitch Medal is the highest award that the society gives to a nonresident of Great Britain and is given to those who have advanced and improved the science of horticulture.