All my work is driven by a passion for beautiful, resilient gardens, and a deep understanding of excellent design.

English Gardening School · Distinction

Essential Garden Design Diploma

Passed with Distinction. Winner of the Design Challenge, designing a garden for a real client.

English Gardening School · Distinction

Good Gardening Diploma

Passed with Distinction. Winner of the Writing Challenge, for an article on growing a hedge for flower arranging, written as a course exercise for Gardens Illustrated.

Royal Horticultural Society

RHS Level 2 Practical Horticulture

Newspapers and agency

Telegraph, Daily Mail, Press Association

Reporting and editing under daily deadlines, which is where the habits of checking, sharpening and finding the angle come from.

Content Editor

The English Gardening School

Creating and launching the school's Substack publication: commissioning, writing and editing profiles, features and garden write-ups.