Ms Marie Taylor, of Napier, QSM for services to horticulture and native revegetation
Marie Taylor owns and manages Plant Hawke’s Bay Ltd, a native plant nursery supplying the Hawke’s Bay revegetation market with eco-sourced wholesale plants. Her work has contributed to the survival of rare native species. She is founder and Chair of the Hawke’s Bay Botanical Group and a Trustee of Puahanui, a large area of native bush. She was part of the Implementation Planning Group who wrote the Hawke’s Bay Biodiversity Action Plan 2017-2020. Ms Taylor was a regional representative on the QEII National Trust and is a Board member of New Zealand Plant Producers Inc., the nursery industry body.