About

I spent most of my childhood amongst the sunflowers, marigolds and tomato plants of my parents’ beautiful, ever-blooming and productive garden. As is told over and again, this set in a life-long curiosity for nature and gardening, progressing over several years to formal horticultural studies with the RHS and later in social and therapeutic horticulture.

I have worked voluntarily and professionally amongst plants and flowers for much of my adult life. Happy volunteering took place in a plant nursery, a community garden and in creating wellbeing growing kits for vulnerable people. In work I founded a business growing and selling edible flowers to chefs, bakers and mixologists. More recently I co-managed a therapeutic gardening Community Interest Company.

My writing experience spans the decades, with the creation and management of a successful environmental blog with a team of global editors in the early 2000s, which was named in The Times top 50 eco blogs. As well as this I have contributed articles to an independent magazine about botanical crafts, worked in libraries and written and organised content for websites for over 20 years. Words and nature co-habit so harmoniously.