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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Neville Stein

Based in: Suffolk, UK
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Nancy Stewart

Based in: Northamptonshire, UK
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Kim Stoddart

Leading expert climate change resilient gardening. Editor Amateur Gardening magazine. More than a decade's experience running courses and talks including RHS events, Gardeners' World Live and National Botanic Gardens of Wales. Author of books, engaging sparky feel-good speaker with on the ground solutions for more resilient gardening

Based in: Ceredigion, Wales, UK
Distance willing to travel:
Virtual talks available: Yes

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Talks: Climate change gardening Natural pest control Organic gardening Gardening and wellbeing Future proofing your plot The resilient vegetable garden Growing edibles all year round Food growing on a budget

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Lucy Summers

My talks are lively and engaging covering nature, gardening and naturally, plants. A passionate advocate of the wonders and healing power of nature, I welcome enquiries from all kinds of clubs and organisations.

Based in: Ipswich
Distance willing to travel: 20 miles
Virtual talks available: Yes

Fees: 200

Talks: The healing power of nature History of the Chelsea Flower Show How to get published in non-fiction And more...

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Anne Swithinbank

I gave my first talk while working as foreman propagator for Epsom and Ewell parks in 1980. Since then, I've shared the love of gardening on land and at sea, in small village halls and on huge stages.

Based in: Colyton, Devon, UK
Distance willing to travel: Negotiable
Virtual talks available: No

Fees: On application

Talks: My Devon Garden Lessons from a lifetime of gardening Under cover (indoor gardening) Gardening in spring/summer/autumn/ winter (seasonal talks on what to do and must-have plants) The fragrant garden Replant, propagate, plant and prune I'll tailor specific talks, such as 'Botanising the footpaths of Torquay' and 'Foraging from the garden'

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