I am available for articles and illustrated talks or practical workshops nationwide on a number of subjects.

Listed below are just a few suggestions but I am always happy to create a talk or workshop to match your specific requirement – assuming I know enough about it, of course!

Gardening

• Short-cut gardening
• Twelve plants for twelve months
• Wildflowers in the garden border
• From fashions to flowers (I used to be in the rag trade before becoming a professional gardener)
• New house, new garden
• Design your own garden
• Inspiration for garden designs

Social History

• The extraordinary achievements of Sir George Grove: 19th Century Lighthouse Builder, Director of Crystal Palace, Founder of Palestine Exploration Fund, Discoverer of Schubert’s lost manuscripts and Founder of Royal College of Music.  Author of Grove’s Dictionary of Music
• An Illegitimate Egg Salesman, a Chaplain and a King: a genealogical journey of discovery
• Hoar Oak Cottage – the People, the Place, their Lives.  How did an isolated, humble and now derelict shepherd’s cott in North Devon become an enclave of 19th century Scottish families? Why did they come and what traces have they left behind? In my role as Chair of the Friends of Hoar Oak Cottage, an exploration of how a chance meeting of two descendants led to this major research and conservation project

Travel

• Exmoor National Park
• The Cotswolds
• The Chilterns
• Dublin: Of Gardens, Graves and Gambling? Visiting Glasnevin Botanical Gardens, Glasnevin Cemetery, Casino Marino
• New Mexico, Arizona & the Grand Canyon
• The Seychelle Islands before Independence