in 2007. In May 2006, Hart Dyke brought an Australian Eucalyptus caesia plant, common name Silver Princess, to flower for the first time in the UK. He was inspired by orchids at his first school, St Michaels, Otford, Kent. The garden features include the Hot & Spikey house which contains over 1,000 varieties of cacti, succulents & bromeliads from all over the world. Hart Dyke is a patron of the charity the British Cactus & Succulent Society. Hart Dyke was featured in the PBS Nova programme in 2002, Orchid Hunter that documented his return to hunting rare orchids in dangerous terrain in another politically unstable area in Irian Jaya in the rainforests of Western New Guinea. See also List of kidnappings List of solved missing person cases Orchid hunters References Notes Bibliography External links Lullingstone Castle and the World Garden of Plants Tom Hart Dyke's personal website 1976 births 2000s missing person cases English gardeners English horticulturists Formerly missing people Kidnapped English people Living people Missing person cases in North America People educated at Stanbridge Earls School People from Lullingstone