Keen to know your garden better? I can offer a consultation with you, focusing on the planting and the garden's uses and potential. As a follow-up to the visit, I will prepare an easy to follow maintenance plan to keep your garden looking its best all year round.

I began my horticultural career while working as a guide in a show cave in the Peak District - preferring to spend the time between tours gardening to the more acceptable pastime drinking tea! I then travelled around parts of Australia and Wales, learning from the farmers, smallholders and growers I met and worked alongside. A qualification in horticulture followed - RHS Level 2 - and a job working for a country house hotel with 14 acres of grounds in 2011. Between this and my private clients I was soon very busy! After taking maternity leave in 2013, I returned to the hotel and progressed to Deputy Head Gardener, eventually taking on the management of the ornamental gardens. I enjoy reading and keeping up to date with styles and changing attitudes, though as always it's through watching plants grow and change season to season, year to year, that I have learned the most.