Jim Paine is an experienced, professional and fluent garden club speaker, offering garden clubs and horticultural societies a wide range of lively and well illustrated talks.

After ten years working in international conservation at the UNEP-IUCN World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge, Jim and his partner Clare established Walnut Tree Garden Nursery in south Norfolk in 1998.  

The nursery focused on propagating and selling a wide range of rare and unusual hardy garden plants.  Specialities included flowering dogwoods (Cornus) (the nursery offering one of the largest selections in the UK), crab apples and other ornamental trees as well as numerous shrubs and herbaceous perennials.

In 2005 Jim and Clare established the Norfolk Nursery Network, a non-profit collaboration between enthusiast-driven specialist plant nurseries in Norfolk, a unique enterprise not replicated in any other county in the UK.

A wide-ranging, illustrated talk that briefly summarises the current science behind climate change forecasts, before delving into the impacts likely to be seen globally, in the UK generally and East Anglia more specifically. How, as gardeners, can we respond? What steps might we take to ensure we can still continue to enjoy success in the garden and contribute to tackling the issue by reducing our own impact, conserving and nurturing biodiversity and supporting larger community-wide projects - an active and optimistic approach.