Ade Sellars

Ade is available for stage hosting and talks at garden shows, 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: -Stage Hosting at garden events -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: from £150, Travel 50p / mile (discounts may be offered for certain groups) zoom £100 (using club's account)

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 And I’m happy to develop the perfect bespoke demo, lecture, or workshop to educate and inspire your audience. (NB there may be an extra cost involved) Please check out Plews Garden Design website for further details and other talk and workshop topics.

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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: MOVING HEAVEN & EARTH - ‘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? UNFORGETTABLE GARDENS FROM VANBRUGH TO BUNNY GUINNESS !

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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 100k followers on social media.

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

Fees: Contact Tony via email

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

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Neville Stein

A dynamic horticulturist with 45 years of captivating audiences. My talks are renowned for being as engaging and entertaining as they are informative, blending expert knowledge with humor. I offer a wide range of tailored topics to inspire and delight any gardening group.

Based in: Felixstowe, Suffolk, UK
Distance willing to travel: UK Wide
Virtual talks available: Yes

Fees: By negotiation

Talks: The History of Garden Centres: From Propagators to Propaganda - How Post-War Britain Shaped Our Garden Centres The History of Garden Centres: The 100-Year Makeover - The Evolution of the British Garden Centre The History of Commerical Nurseries: More Than a Grower - The Dynasties and Discoveries of the Nursery Trade Sustainable Gardening: No-Dig, Less Work, More Growth - The Modern Guide to Sustainable Gardening The History of Vegetables: From Andes to Allotment - The Global History of Your Favourite Vegetables Strange Vegetables: Gardening's Greatest Oddities - A Tour of Truly Strange Veg The History of Commerical Nurseries: From Family Plots to National Suppliers - The Growth of Wholesale Nurseries Sustainable Gardening: From Pollinators to Precipitation- How to Build a Self-Sustaining Ecosystem Sustainable Gardening: The Resilient Garden - Sustainable Practices for a Changing Climate

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Doug Stewart

Full details available at https://dougstewart.co.uk Doug is an amusing and in demand speaker throughout the UK

Based in: East Riding of Yorkshire, UK
Distance willing to travel: National
Virtual talks available: Yes

Fees: Talks start at £100, + travel + VAT

Talks: The New Way To Garden Ecological and Sustainable Landscapes The way we were Easy Gardening for Tired Joints

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Nancy Stewart

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

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Nick Stewart Smith

Nick Stewart Smith has been head gardener at a series of high-profile sites including Overbeck’s (NT), Chequers (No.10) and Lambeth Palace. He is the author of two books, "The Thousand Year Old Garden: Inside The Secret Garden at Lambeth Palace" and "Wildflowers of London".

Based in: Faversham, Kent
Distance willing to travel:
Virtual talks available: No

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Talks: 1. The Thousand Year Old Garden: Inside the Secret Garden at Lambeth Palace – giving an intimate and detailed portrait of day-to-day life working in a high-profile historic garden, a calm oasis hidden away at the centre of one of the world’s busiest cities 2. Wildflowers of London – takes us a journey through gritty urban London, telling the stories of the fascinating wildflowers encountered along the way.

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