The RHS has said that current president, Giles Coode-Adams will retire in July 2010 after just one year in the post he was elected to in July 2008.
Coode-Adams was elected to president after the death of Peter Buckley - he joined the RHS Council in 2002 after a career in banking and was previously a director of Lehman Brothers.
He spent six years running the Foundation at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and was one of the Founders of the Millennium Seed Bank.
Coode-Adams said, “It has been a pleasure to serve the RHS over the past eight years. I had not expected to become President of this remarkable charity, and it has been a very rewarding role, working with wonderful people who do an amazing job to help millions of people benefit from the very best in horticulture. Now that I have notched up my three-score-years-and-ten, I feel it is time to hand over the reins and spend rather more time with my wife in our own garden.”
Elizabeth Banks, a Landscape Architect who specialised in the restoration of Historic Landscapes, has been invited to stand for election.
Retired Banks has a long working association with the RHS dating back to the original masterplan for Rosemoor in 1987 and was elected to the council in 2007.
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