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Where my gardens and flowers have turned up in the news. Writing about gardens, flowers or Glossop? Drop me a line below, I’m always up for a natter.
GLOSSOP CHRONICLE · 1 OCTOBER 2026
“RHS garden finds new home in Gamesley”
Front page, plus a two-page spread inside on the day the community opened its new wellbeing garden, replanted from my RHS Sandringham border.
BUSINESS PEAK DISTRICT · AUGUST 2026
Silver-Gilt at RHS Sandringham
Business Peak District covered the Silver-Gilt medal for Between Chaos & Order, my first RHS show garden, and the plan to give it a permanent home in Gamesley.
GLOSSOP CHRONICLE · 30 JULY 2026
From cyber security to Silver-Gilt
Claire Webber’s write-up of the medal at RHS Sandringham, a year after I left IT to design gardens.
On film
Interviews filmed at RHS Sandringham and since.
THE CLOUD GARDENER · YOUTUBE · AUGUST 2026
Jason Williams, the Cloud Gardener, grows a whole garden on an 18th-floor balcony in Manchester. He stopped at my border on his tour of RHS Sandringham and asked about calm planting and my move out of cyber security. My part starts at 16:52. Watch the full tour on YouTube.
WITH OLLIE SANDERS · SEPTEMBER 2026
Ollie Sanders designs and looks after gardens in the Lake District. We spent a day together at Levens Hall, the oldest topiary garden in the world, and he interviewed me about swapping cyber security for garden design.
FROM THE RHS · SANDRINGHAM 2026
The RHS told the story of the border and the career change behind it during the show. See the garden on the RHS site.
ELSEWHERE
Also featured in
RHS · Between Chaos & Order on the RHS Sandringham Flower Show 2026 garden pages, Silver-Gilt medal
Buxton Advertiser · the RHS show success story, summer 2026
Business Up North · 28 July 2026
Love Business East Midlands · 28 July 2026
GardensDB · the show garden record for Between Chaos & Order
Myerscough College · named Horticulturist of the Year in the college’s RHS results round-up, September 2025