Rosemary is delighted to find her name among the many other ‘Leading Women in Horticulture’ article in this month’s Horticultural Week, several of them being graduates of the English Gardening School
(listed alphabetically)
Rosemary Alexander, English Garden School
Sue Allen, Greenfingers chair and Millbrook founder
Arit Anderson, TV gardener
Kate Ashbrook, Open Spaces Society
Melanie Asker, Greenwood Plants managing director
Claire Austin, Claire Austin Plants
Jane Barker, Dalefoot
Fran Barnes, HTA chief executive officer
Heather Barrett-Mold, horticulture education consultant
Mandy Barrie, Caulders Garden Centres
Sue Beasley, RHS council
Claire Belderbos, Belderbos Landscapes sales and marketing director
Baroness Natalie Bennett, member of House of Lords
Jinny Blom, designer
Mariam Boswell, landscape architect and garden designer
Sandra Botterell, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew director of marketing and commercial
Val Bourne, writer
Christine Burton, Bransford Webbs
Ali Capper, British Apples & Pears
Rosemary Coldstream, landscape designer
Gill Corless, Sakata
Kate Cotterill, She Grows Veg
Sally Cullimore, HTA
Sarah Daniel, Pengelly, HTA Council Devon/Cornwall
Hannah Darby, Darby Nursery Stock
Catherine Dawson, Melcourt
Fiona Davison, head of RHS libraries & exhibitions
Rachel de Thame, TV gardener *** EGS Alumni
Charlie Dimmock, TV gardener
Stephanie Dunn-James, director Frank P Matthews
Sally Drury, HortWeek technical editor
Sarah Eberle, garden designer/RHS Council
Helen Elks-Smith, garden designer
Jill England, ADAS
Tazim Essani, RHS council member
Madeleine Evans, Plants at Work chair
Jodie Fedorko, The Leicestershire Garden Design/BALI Go Landscape ambassador
Jane Findlay, Landscape Institute past president
Tamara Finkelstein, Defra permanent secretary
Sharon Fisher, BBC Gardeners’ World/RHS Chelsea Flower Show series producer
Catherine FitzGerald, garden designer *** EGS Alumni
Baroness Janet Fookes, member of the House of Lords
Alys Fowler, garden writer
Penny Fryer, Boningale
Beverley Glover, Cambridge University Botanic Garden director
Carolin Gohler, LI president-elect
Kay Green, Stihl GB managing director
Pippa Greenwood, HTA horticulture manager
Rebecca Grant, Rochfords and HTA Council Home Counties
Bunny Guinness, garden designer/writer
Rosy Hardy, Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants
Charlotte Harris, garden designer
Stephanie Hafferty, garden writer, organic gardener, edible garden designer, food writer and educator.
Flo Headlam, garden designer
Jo Hedger, World Tree Climbing Champion
Mollie Higginson, New Leaf and HTA Council West Midlands
Nicole Higginson, New Leaf Plants director
Gwen Hines, CEO of Plant Heritage
Penelope Hobhouse, garden writer
Sharon Hockenhull, garden designer
Catherine Horwood, writer
Charlotte Howard, gardener, garden designer and horticultural adviser
Christine Howard, Howard Nurseries
Lucy Hutchings, She Grows Veg
Ji-hae Hwang, garden designer and environmental artist
Laura Jackson, (Swarkestone) HTA Council East Midlands
Yvonne Jarman, Hayloft director/founder
Dr Gemma Jerome, Building with Nature director
Tessa Johnstone, Johnstone Landscapes/BALI diversity director
Carol Klein, TV gardener
Jill Kerr group relationship manager at Blue Diamond
Joy Larkcom, writer
Jane Lawler, HTA board
Michelle de Lavis-Trafford, chief executive officer at Choice Marketing
Arabella Lennox Boyd, garden designer
Georgie Logan, senior urban forest manager at Trees for Cities
Sharon Lowndes, Fairweathers
Lilidh Matthews, YPHA accounts and bursary manager
Lynne Marcus, Society of Garden Designers council
Fiona Marley, Whetman Plants International
Andrea Marshall, head of professional growing media at Sinclair/Westland
Clare Matterson, RHS director general
Michelle Maybury, Continental Landscapes executive director
Hilary McGrady, National Trust director general
Jekka McVicar, grower/writer
Sarah Millington, Hillview Hardy Plants
Sue Minter, horticultural consultant
Sirekit Moi, Beekenkamp
Sarah Morgan, Society of Garden Designers past chair
Kim Morrish, Ground Control director
Suzanne Moss, RHS education and learning head
Vicky Nuttall, Garden Industry Manufacturers Association director
Duchess of Northumberland, The Alnwick Garden founder
Caroline Owen, Scotsdale managing director
Anna Pavord, writer
Sue Payne, Q&S Commercial Landscaping co-managing director
Linda Petrons, Greenfingers
Helena Pettit, RHS gardens and shows director
Jennifer Pheasey, HTA public affairs director
Rachel Poletti-Gadd, River Street Events (Gardeners’ World Live)
Nat Porter, Young People in Horticulture Association/Happy Plants
Rebecca Pow, Defra minister
Ann-Marie Powell, garden designer
Clare Preston- Pollitt, events and marketing manager
Sarah Price, garden designer
Charmay Prout, Flavourfresh
Nicola Pugh, HTA Council Wales
Sarah Raven, garden broadcaster/businesswoman/RHS Council
Marion Regan, Hugh Lowe Farms
Advolly Richmond, garden historian
Michelle Ryan, Arboricultural Association
Juliet Sargeant, garden designer, author, garden broadcaster, Society of Garden Designers former chair
Becky Searle, freelance gardening writer and kitchen gardener
Barbara Segall, writer
Amanda Sizer Barrett, Gardenex
Lady Christine Skelmersdale, Broadleigh Gardens
Helen MacDonald (Merryhatton), HTA Council Scotland
Kate Sheldon, Trees for Cities CEO
Pam Smith, National Trust
Tracy Snell, garden manager at RHS Garden Bridgewater
Marian Spain, Natural England chief executive
Nicola Spence, chief plant health officer
Carolyn Spray, Pentland Plants
Sarah Squire, Squire’s
Amy Stubbs, project and development manager at British garden Centres, HTA council member for Yorkshire and the Northeast
Phillippa Stubbs, British Garden Centres
Anne Swithinbank, broadcaster
Gill Tacchi, HTA Council East Anglia
Fiona Taylor, Garden Organic
Jo Thompson, garden designer *** EGS Alumni
Xa Tollemache, garden designer/RHS Council
Frances Tophill, horticulturist and author
Alice Vincent, horticulture author
Claire Vokins, horticultural consultant
Christine Walkden, TV gardener
Megan Warren-Davis, content creator at Forest Interior
Tamsin Westhorpe, author/writer
Pollyanna Wilkinson, garden designer
Ruth Willmott, garden designer/RHS Council *** EGS Alumni
Sarah Wilson, Roots and All
Melanie Wood, Fargro and founder of Women in Horticulture UK
Tammy Woodhouse, Garden Centre Association immediate past chair/Millbrook managing director
Holly Youde, Association of Professional Landscapers chair