speakers & lecturers
If you're a member of a garden club, horticultural society or similar organisation looking for a speaker to give a talk to your members, staff and others, then look no further than the Garden Media Guild members who are speakers and lecturers.
Members of the Garden Media Guild are either well-known writers, authors, photographers, bloggers, social media influencers, or radio or TV presenters. Our directory provides a list of the most popular talks they give – although they may have more – their contact details and fees.
Please note
This is a service for clubs and societies, provided by the Guild. The Garden Media Guild is not responsible for the speakers in any way and we cannot enter into any conversations with the clubs, societies and speakers concerning bookings, or any other matter, or any dispute that may arise from any subsequent bookings.
How to use
You can either see the full list of our members who give talks – simply scroll down the page – or you can search for a speaker.
If you know the name of the speaker you are interested in, type their name in the search box below.
If you're looking for a speaker within a certain distance of your club or society, type your postcode in the box plus the maximum number of miles you're willing for them to travel to you. You can also use the Speaker’s Home Town/City search box.
If you're looking for a specific topic, type this in the Talk Topic box. A list of all the speakers who talk on this subject will be returned.
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Virtual Talks Available
Geoff Hodge
Geoff Hodge is a garden writer, broadcaster and editor, working for various national gardening magazines and websites – as well as lots more besides! Previously, he was the Online Editor for the Royal Horticultural Society, Gardening Editor and Editor of Garden News magazine and Technical Editor of Garden Answers magazine.
Based in: Peterborough
Distance willing to travel: I regularly travel up to 120 miles. Venues further afield may incur an additional payment on my fees plus overnight hotel accommodation; please ask when making enquiries.
Virtual talks available: Yes
Fees: £115 plus 40p* per mile travelling expenses.
* This is my current mileage rate. Travelling expenses are dependent on fuel prices at the time of the talk, and may have to change accordingly.
Talks:
All Muck & Magic? The Answer Lies In The Soil!
A Tapestry of Foliage
Bugs & Garden Plagues – Pest & Disease Control
Clematis: The Queen Of The Climbers
Easy Gardening – Low-Maintenance Gardens
Gardening on Chalk
Gardening on Clay
Gardening on the Coast
Gardening with Changing Climate – Gardening in the Global Greenhouse
Gardening in Dry & Drought Conditions – Drought-resisting Plants
Gardening in the Shade
Gardening Inside – Greenhouse Gardening
GYO Veg – Grow Your Own Vegetables
Happy, Healthy Roses
Happy Houseplants – The Indoor Jungle
Luscious Lawns – Lawncare for Perfect Lawns
Plants for Problem Places
Propagation – Plants for Free
Pruning – Making it Simple: The First Cut Is The Deepest
Fragrant Plants & The Scented Garden
The 12-Month Garden – Colour All Year Round
The Life & Times of a Gardening Editor
Weeds & the Weed-free Garden
Winter Colour in the Garden – Beating the Winter Blues
Q&As - have all your gardening questions answered
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Virtual Talks Available
Michael Holland
Michael has a good selection of interesting illustrated talks - drawn from his varied career and interests on numerous aspects of the natural world, social history, health and botany.
Based in: London
Distance willing to travel: 100 MILES
Virtual talks available: Yes
Fees: £150 including reasonable travel from London
Talks:
• Five Plants That Changed the World
• There’s No Such Thing as a Houseplant
•State of the Art Healing Plants
• Tales from the Fruit Bowl - A series of 4 talks on beloved fruits' stories, history, geography, folklore, symbolism, botany, nutrition, chemistry & more. Each talk highlights a plant family with notable members:
○ Zest & the Rest - the Citrus family
○ Gourd Almighty - the Cucurbitaceae family
○ Saucy & Spicy - the Solanaceae family
○ Core & More - the Rosaceae family
• The 12 Plants of Christmas - Wreaths, Raisins & Roasties - a delve into the backstories and folklore of some common festive favourites
• London's Parks and Gardens
• Food is Medicine
• Container Gardening for Food and Medicines.
Contact
Virtual Talks Available
Caroline Holmes
Academic but not dry, see website for full details
Based in: Bury St Edmunds
Distance willing to travel: Any
Virtual talks available: Yes
Fees: £300+
Talks:
A Zest for Herbs
Impressionists in their Gardens
Japanese gardens - temple, royal and domestic
Memphis before Elvis - Egyptian plants and gardens
Monet at Giverny
Permission to Poison - the Alnwick Garden
Sheer folly - a walk through garden history
Slay them with flowers - Doctor Shatterhand’s garden
Full list on website www.horti-history.com
Contact
Virtual Talks Available
Nicola Hope
Nikki loves to share her knowledge and experience in her witty and relaxed style. She’d be delighted to come to talk to your group or organisation. She talks on a number of subjects and her latest talk ‘Organic Gardening - Happy Plants, Happy Minds’ has proved very popular indeed.
Based in: Malmesbury
Distance willing to travel: Negotiable
Virtual talks available: Yes
Fees: From £145.00 plus travel expenses of 0.45p per mile
Talks:
1) Organic Gardening ~ Happy Plants, Happy Minds - I take you through a gardening year in the big garden where I work. Plenty of tips, beautiful flowers and juicy vegetables.
2) Talking Tomatoes - I adore tomatoes and have grown them for myself and clients for many years. Growing tips and lots of great variety recommendations.
3) Designing an Organic Gardening - A mix of veg gardens and ornamental gardening information with loads of design tips for a pleasing and productive garden.
4) Tales from the Potting Shed - A whirlwind tour of the gardens in which I have worked (Highgrove, Cole Park, Sting’s Lake House etc.) with some tips and tales along the way.
5) The exciting world of No-dig and Polyculture - explaining the benefits and practicalities, plus how to implement these sustainable and productive gardening techniques in your garden.
Contact
Virtual Talks Available
Catherine Horwood
I am an experienced and popular speaker regularly asked back by clubs and societies. Currently only taking local daytime bookings due to work commitments but virtual talks are available at all times. Do contact to discuss.
Based in: London
Distance willing to travel: Local to London
Virtual talks available: Yes
Fees: From £125
Talks:
Beth Chatto - a life with plants based on my biography
Gardening Women - a selection of fascinting stories from across the centuries
Potted History - a look at why and for how long house plants have taken over our homes
The Cutting Garden - exploring the background to the current popularity of growing cut flowers
ROSE - the cultural history of the world's favourite flower
Contact
Virtual Talks Available
Heidi Howcroft
Wide range of talks given in both English in German in a variety of countries over the past 30 years.
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Virtual talks available: Yes
Fees: to be negotiated
Talks:
See website for list of books.
Contact
Michael Howes
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Virtual talks available: No
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Virtual Talks Available
Petra Hoyer Millar
Publisher, writer and gardener. Editor of thedirt.news and the Oxonian Gardener. Petra's garden featured in CountryLife, The English Garden & Gardens Illustrated magazine.
Based in: DEDDINGTON, BANBURY
Distance willing to travel: 45-60 min max
Virtual talks available: Yes
Fees: £200 plus mileage @45ppm
Talks:
Generally topics that feature on my blog, but popular ones include; Popular topics; Rose sculptures (tying & pruning), cloud pruning hedged, herbaceous border design, extending seasonal interest and colour border design.
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Virtual Talks Available
Jason Ingram
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Virtual Talks Available
Andrea Jones
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Distance willing to travel: UK wide
Virtual talks available: Yes
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A World of Gardens:
Through her pictures, multi-award winning photographer, Andrea Jones, will tell us how her 25 year career (so far) in the niche world of horticultural photography evolved and how it has led her to travel widely and document such a vast array of gardens around the globe. In this illustrated talk Andrea will reveal images of many gardens she feels privileged to have had access to over the years and photographed for publication including some new projects that haven’t yet hit the press.
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