Award-winning Horticulturalist Christine Walkden takes her gardening life on the road
Christine Walkden’s “gardening life”
encompasses passion, formidable expertise, hard won
experience and a serious desire to share the rewards of
gardening with others. It’s the work of a lifetime.
Christine is taking the story of that
life’s work on the road in a national tour: My Life in
Gardening.
Her appearances will give audiences the
opportunity to hear first-hand how this accomplished
Lancashire plantswoman and horticulturalist made her way
from child gardener to nationally recognised horticultural
expert. Of course there will be plenty of stories about the
quirky characters and unforeseen “adventures” that have
shaped her journey along the way. Audiences will have a
chance to ask questions in Christine’s very own Gardener’s
Question Time session following her talk.
She hopes this tour will help people see
that “that gardeners do a lot more every day than just weed,
cut grass and plant a few things.”
Fans of Christine’s down-to-earth style
coupled with razor sharp horticultural knowledge are wide
ranging. Those who barely know which end of a bulb is up as
well as life-long gardeners enjoy her warm, straight-talking
approach and her sheer delight in “Mother Nature.” She’s
emphatic that a garden should be an extension of you and not
a product of what any current “media hype tends to suggest”.
And audiences can’t
get enough of her. She’s the resident gardening expert on
the One Show and has done two popular BBC 2 series of
Christine’s Garden. Christine has made regular
appearances on the Paul O’Grady Show and GMTV
and has contributed to Countryfile, Gardener’s
World, Gardeners Diary and the BBC’s Chelsea
Flower Show coverage. She’s even has made a guest
appearance on Shooting Stars. Christine is a past
winner of the Garden
Writers' Guild Radio Broadcasting Award and has authored two
books, The Houseplant
Almanac and A Year in Christine’s Garden. Later
this year she will receive an honorary doctorate from the
University of Essex.
Paul O’Grady calls Christine simply “the
best gardener on TV”.
For more information contact:
Kathleen LaCamera, PictureWise
Productions
Tel: 01625 537 951; mobile: 07932 697074
Kathleen@picturewise.co.uk
