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• Website Editor
• Website Writer
• Writer: Consumer Magazines
• Writer: Local Newspapers
• Writer: Trade & Professional

Alex Valk RHS Level 2 Horticulture Diploma

Full Member

Biography

Alex Valk is head gardener at the Michelin-Rosette restaurant The Boat in Lichfield where she oversees the ornamental garden and vegetable growing. She holds an RHS Level 2 Diploma in Horticulture, and changed careers into the industry after almost two decades working in communications. As well as her Level 2, she also earned a Garden Design Certificate from Winterbourne Centre for Horticulture in 2023. Alex has recently written for the English Garden, Amateur Gardening, Birmingham Dispatch, Radicle, Horticulture Week, Garden Folk Magazine and Well+Good. She also edits the Lupin Mailer, a monthly newsletter for a prestigious horticultural company in the West Midlands. She also writes a regular Substack, GROW.

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