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[edit] Who I am
My name is Réginald Hulhoven. I am living in Veltem-Beisem (district Herent) near Louvain, Belgium. I am Belgian, both French- and Dutch-speaking. Because of my occupation I am also practising fluently the English language. I am married and have 4 adult children (2 daughters and 2 sons).
Since my adolescence I have a passion for botany. Botany has become in a way a second occupation. My passion for gardening began about twenty years ago. I have a passion for above all rock plants and botanical bulbs - particularly hardy autumn-flowering bulbs, of which I have about thirty different species - and garden cyclamens. Within this framework I have special contacts with specialised nurseries of botanical bulbs and of perennial plants in Netherlands and in Belgium.
I am friend and botanical adviser of Ivo Pauwels - a green author well-known in Dutch-speaking Belgium - whom I have met about ten years ago during a memorable garden tour in Portugal. Shortly thereafter Ivo made an article on my hobby and we have progressively become friends. Ivo has said once that my garden - although relatively small - was a living herbarium. I am reviewing and criticising his books and his articles in order to ensure their botanical accuracy.
I am regularly participating with Ivo and other green journalists in garden tours. So, we have visited gardens and natural reserves in Portugal, Madeira, the Canary Islands, France, Wales, Ireland, and Belgium. I am often visiting the garden fairs, among others that of Beervelde and of Hex. During the last years I have written some botanical articles in Les Jardins d'Eden – De Tuinen van Eden, among others about hardy autumn-flowering bulbs, Araceae, cyclamens, Actaea species and snowflakes, and about the flora of the Pyrenees. I am also a botanical advisor of books edited by Ludion.
Meneerke bloem (English: Mister Flower) is my nickname, given by friends of my future spouse, when I was a student at the University.
[edit] My professional career
- Medical Doctor (Université catholique de Louvain) - 1970
- Specialist in Internal Medicine (Université catholique de Louvain) - 1975
- Certificate for University Teaching (Université catholique de Louvain) - 1983
- Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians, United Kingdom - 1997
- Guest Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, Université catholique de Louvain - 1999
- Member of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology - 2005
Since 1986 I am appointed as a Clinical Pharmacologist in the pharmaceutical industry
Since February 2007 I am contributing to the French site of Wikipedia, and since January 2008 to the Dutch site of Wikipedia.
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