In 2011 after a career in music and having brought up five children, I decided to pursue a lifelong passion and studied at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to become a gardener. I developed a gardening business where I tried to enhance the spaces I worked on. I would fill them with a mix of vegetables, fruit and flowering plants whenever the opportunity arose to bring joy and sustenance. 

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Since 2019 I have been assistant gardener and plant records officer at the Royal College of Physicians’ Garden of Medicinal Plants where I have been introduced to the amazing history of plants and their uses and been inspired to gain the Diploma in Herbology from the RBGE in 2023.

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Alongside my work at the RCP, I now give herbal workshops to educate and enthuse others. I hope to bring them to a greater understanding of plants and how they enrich our lives.