Val Bourne

Val Bourne is an award-winning garden writer, hands-on gardener and committed plantaholic. Recent winner of Garden Media Guild’s Digital Writer of the Year, she manages her third of an acre garden without using chemicals – something she has always believed in. Her latest book The Living Jigsaw, is all about her eco-friendly garden. She has been interested in the natural world since childhood and has actively tried to influence gardeners to be greener in order to help the survival of our planet. Val has been judging RHS plant trials for the past 16 years and she appears in many publications. She began writing in 1995 and is an Ambassador for The Hardy Plant Society. http://www.valbourne.co.uk