I have written about gardens and gardening for publications such as the Telegraph, Homes & Gardens, Times Weekend (All hail the god of Beetroot!) The English Garden, Garden News, Hortus, Modern Gardens, Kitchen Garden and British Heritage .
I particularly loved writing a feature for the Times on the incredible floating allotments (les Hortillonages) at Amiens in France and the delightful (but with arcane opening hours) garden at St Johns Jerusalem tucked away just inside the M25 for British Heritage.
I am extremely proud to be one of the inaugural thirty writers at Scribehound Gardening, a brand new subscriber-based platform that brings a daily column from the likes of Alan Titchmarsh, Adam Frost, Advolly Richmond, Joe Swift, Tom Stuart Smith, Arit Anderson - and me! - 365 days a year.
I am a sucker for 'lost' gardens - such as the mysterious, romantic Warley Place in Essex, once one of the finest gardens in Edwardian England, now a haven for strange ruins, wildlife and beautiful native plants. My book Lost Gardens of the World came out in September 2024.
I am particularly enamoured of one very special lost garden - Warley Place - and have spent the last eight years recovering the personal papers of its owner, Edwardian plantswoman Miss Ellen Ann Willmott. My new biography, Miss Willmott's Ghosts, is just part of an ongoing project to recover her history.
I have written three books for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Welbeck, The Witch's Garden, The Magic of Mushrooms and The Witch's Forest.
I am a full member of the Garden Media Guild.
Read my blog, The Event Gardener here
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