Trevor Jack Cole
Trevor Cole was a non-fiction author specializing in gardening topics. He was based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at Kinburn.
From 1958 until 1960, he trained at Kew Gardens in England, where he met his future wife, Brenda. They married in 1960 upon graduation from Kew.
He moved to Canada in 1967, continuing his career in horticulture. Cole worked at the Central Experimental Farm from 1967 through to his retirement as the last Curator of the Dominion Arboretum in 1995.
Cole was also a columnist for the Ottawa Citizen and a consultant for Reader's Digest in Canada. He was recognized internationally for his work in horticulture and garden writing. He was the author of the Canadian best seller "The Ontario Gardener" and edited many gardening books for publishers including Readers Digest and Dorling Kindersley. He was the president of the Ottawa Horticultural Society from 1974 to 1976 and again in 1980. Cole was also a former director of the Rhododendron Society of Canada.
In later life he took up singing, and was part of the Arnprior Community Choir and led The Sounds of Music chorus at the Kanata Senior Center.Cole received a Canada 125 medal in 1992. He has also received other recognitions for his horticultural writing.
