Val Bourne is an award-winning garden writer, organic gardener
and lecturer and she gardens on the wind-swept Cotswolds at Spring
Cottage - high above Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire. Her
third of an acre garden is managed without using chemicals -
something Val has always believed in. She is a hands on gardener
and a committed plantaholic.
The Ten Minute Gardener's Fruit Growing Diary; The Living
Jigsaw: the secret life in your garden; The Ten Minute Gardener's
Vegetable Growing Diary; Colour in the Garden; The Winter Garden;
The Natural Gardener; Seeds of Wisdom;
I've been a gardener all my life, but I only began writing about
gardening in 1995. Back then most garden writing seemed
uninspiring, rather dull and often badly informed. So I put my toe
in the water, having been inspired by Beth Chatto's nursery
catalogue which described plants with incredible flair and poetry.
It wasn't easy and I earnt £50 in my first six months. I moth
balled my car, took to a bike, and lived on a diet of cheap baked
beans. Gradually I crept into the world of garden writing and I've
kept going.