Juliet Sargeant

Juliet Sargeant is a multi-award winning garden designer and broadcaster. Fans of BBC Radio 4's Gardeners Question Time, will recognise her as a regular panellist. Juliet runs The Sussex Garden School for creative design, gardening & craft workshops. She is known for her approachable teaching style and inspirational lectures.

Based in: Brighton, East Sussex, UK
Distance willing to travel: 30 miles
Virtual talks available: Yes

Fees: To be arranged

Talks: From Small Acorns : The Making of a Chelsea Garden The Making of The New Blue Peter Garden: Discover Soil How to Share your Garden with Wildlife Garden Stories and Design Inspiration Why Gardens Matter

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Alan Sargent

Based in: West Sussex, UK
Distance willing to travel:
Virtual talks available: No

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Becky Searle

Becky Searle is an ecologist turned garden writer and speaker. She combines her knowledge of ecology with a simple and approachable presentation to explain natural and sustainable gardening techniques and processes. Becky is is particularly passionate about soil and encouraging wildlife into our gardens.

Based in: Exeter, Devon, UK
Distance willing to travel: 100 miles
Virtual talks available: Yes

Fees: £150 plus travel @ 45ppm

Talks: No Dig Gardening and How it Works - a deep dive into how the soil works as an ecosystem, and how we can get the soil to work for us. Creating Wildlife Gardens - How to create a garden that is great for you and great for wildlife. Sustainable Gardening - a look at how we can use our gardens as a force for good to bolster local biodiversity and reduce our impact on the planet. Regenerative Gardening - an introduction to regenerative gardening, what it is, how it works and how we can become regenerative gardeners. Resilient Gardening - How we can future proof our gardens in a changing climate.

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Barbara Segall

Garden writer, editor, author, lecturer

Based in: Sudbury, Suffolk, UK
Distance willing to travel: Negotiable but mainly in East Anglia and Home Counties
Virtual talks available: Yes

Fees: £150 - £190 plus 45p per mile (depending on current fuel prices) PLUS accommodation if necessary. Zoom talks from £100

Talks: My Top Ten (or more) Herbs Secret Gardens of the South East Secret Gardens of East Anglia Desert Island Gardens Garden Chasing in Japan Garden Visiting: why do we do it? Writing a Garden Book

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Ade Sellars

Ade is available for garden talks, clubs and society meetings. He regularly gives talks around the country. Appearances include: BBC Gardeners’ World Live, RHS Wisley Flower Show, RHS Hampton Court Garden Festival, Toby Buckland Garden Festival, Woburn Abbey Flower Show and RHS Cardiff Flower Show.

Based in: Suffolk, UK
Distance willing to travel: Providing travel costs, and if necessary, overnight accommodation costs.
Virtual talks available: No

Fees: Given on enquiry.

Talks: - Leading the Good Life - Building a Kitchen Garden -From the Allotment to the Kitchen Garden

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Marie Shallcross

Garden Designer and Consultant, Gardening Teacher, Garden Writer, professional Horticulturist, lifelong gardener. I love creating edible, ornamental gardens where humans, pets and wildlife can (usually) co-exist happily; enabling others to enjoy their gardens to the full through teaching, talks, workshops, design, writing; restoring my seriously overgrown garden; enjoying life.

Based in: Westerham, Kent, UK
Distance willing to travel: happy to travel - ask me
Virtual talks available: Yes

Fees: negotiable, Travel 50p / mile

Talks: I offer both slideshow type talks & demo/interactive talks Current Topics include Trees for Small Gardens Ground Cover Plants for Your Shady Front Garden Unusual Vegetables for You to Grow Slug and Snail Resistant Herbaceous Perennials Edible Annual Flowers to Grow in Your Garden Herbs to Grow for Your Pets Tips for buying garden plants Drought tolerant plants for containers Seed sowing tips & tricks Dividing herbaceous perennials for free plants Tips for planting, growing & showing spring flowering bulbs Not an exhaustive list – ask if there’s another topic your members are keen to know about as I vary the selection, due to seasonality, etc I also run workshops both at your venue and in my own garden – ask for details Not an exhaustive list – ask if there’s another topic your members are keen to know about as I’m happy to create a bespoke talk, demo or workshop to inspire your audience Or I’m happy to develop the perfect bespoke demo, lecture, or workshop to activate and inspire your audience.

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Steffie Shields M.B.E

Garden photographer, author and historic landscape consultant, gardening feature writer, GMG Awards finalist ‘Inspirational Book of the Year 2016’ for illustrated book ‘Moving Heaven and Earth: Capability Brown's Gift of Landscape’ (Unicorn Press). Vice-President, The Gardens Trust; M.B.E (2018) for services to conservation and heritage.

Based in: Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK
Distance willing to travel: up for discussion
Virtual talks available: Yes

Fees: on application

Talks: ‘CAPABILITY’ BROWN and THE GIFT of LANDSCAPE The life and work of Capability Brown – his natural style of landscape creation and his architecture. ‘CAPABILITY’ BROWN – THE LINCOLNSHIRE CONNECTION Newly discovered biographical evidence about Brown and his Lincolnshire commissions MY GREEN STUDIO A garden restoration with photography in mind BLOOMIN' LOVELY Flower portraiture and garden photography techniques IMPRESSIONS of LINCOLNSHIRE A pictorial journey through the county of Lincolnshire including its historic parks and gardens HAVE GARDEN - WILL TRAVEL Gardening lessons learned - 19 house moves in England, Scotland, Europe & USA! THE ARTIST IN THE GARDEN A commentary on historic and contemporary garden designers. 'CAPABILITY' BROWN, THE SHAKESPEARE OF GARDEN ARTS How Brown's landscapes were influenced by the eighteenth century rise of theatre A PROFUSION OF WATER focuses on the engineering work of 'Capability' Brown HE PAINTS AS HE PLANTS trees and shrubs in 'Capability' Brown's portfolio CAPITAL ‘CAPABILITY’ Brown’s London Commissions ANTIQUARIAN DOCTOR WILLIAM STUKELEY - AN 18C GARDEN DESIGNER?

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Julie Skelton

Originally from a teaching and training background, Julie has carved out a successful career as a garden photographer and enjoys sharing her top tips for creating beautiful garden images.

Based in: Guildford, Surrey, UK
Distance willing to travel: 25 miles
Virtual talks available: No

Fees: £75 / 30 minute talk

Talks: * Offering photography advice to get the best out of your camera or smartphone, and to raise the standard of your garden images. * How garden photography can benefit our mental and physical health. * Some of my own favourite images, how I captured them, and why they work.

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Kathy Slack

Passionate speaker and cookery demonstrator specialising in home grown food and the mental health benefits of growing your own food.

Based in: Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
Distance willing to travel: Anywhere!
Virtual talks available: Yes

Fees: Flexible

Talks: How Vegetable Saved my Life Grow Yourself Happy Tales from the Veg Patch Easy Seasonal Meals How to Grow your own Dinner Getting started with Growing Food Nature Cure

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Tony Spencer

Tony Spencer is the Canadian writer, photographer, speaker and planting designer behind The New Perennialist. He is recognized and published internationally in the world of naturalistic landscape and garden design as a communicator, documenter and sharer of ideas for this movement with over 75k followers on social media.

Based in: TORONTO, Canada
Distance willing to travel: Overseas
Virtual talks available: Yes

Fees: Contact tony@thenewperennialist.com for 2024 speaking fees

Talks: – Wildscaping: Explorations in Naturalistic Planting Design – Open Source: Origins of the New Perennial Movement

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