Walter Frankl had a regular column “Gardener’s Corner” in The Jerusalem Post starting in 1976; it became one of the paper’s most popular features. Born in Vienna in 1906, he developed an early love of sport and nature. In the early 1920s he won the Austrian middle-distance running championship and represented his country in the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. In 1931 he immigrated to Israel (then Palestine).
He studied at the Kadoori Agricultural School at Kfar Tabor, specializing in flower and vegetable growing, greenhouse culture and beekeeping. He was a co-founder of the Jerusalem Horticulture Society and an honorary life-member of “Hatzav” (House Plants Society).
