Author: Kate Turner
Author: Kate Turner
Kate Turner, our expert horticulturalist, has a deep love of all things plants – from vibrant houseplants to stunning gardens and growing your own fruit and veg, Kate knows all the tips and tricks for successful gardening
Kate is a trained horticulturalist and has a wealth of experience working behind the scenes on many of your favourite gardening programmes – from researcher at BBC Gardener’s World, to Project Manager at Alan Titchmarsh’s Love Your Garden on ITV as well as the first two series of Garden Rescue with Charlie Dimmock.
Kate was also the Head Gardener at the prestigious Charterhouse School and worked as a horticulturalist at The Therapy Garden.
Kate’s passion has always been to encourage as many people as possible to get the gardening bug and ran a community garden for 10 years teaching all aspects of horticulture from veg growing to mini-beast habitat making. Kate also ran an Army Wives garden group and together they created a small silver-gilt medal winning garden at the Hampton Court Flower Festival.
Kate is the Gardening Guru for Miracle-Gro, where she advises on all things horticultural. She consults with the product development teams and helps to educate garden centre staff, too. She’s worked on a mix of events for Miracle-Gro, including award-winning stands at both Chelsea Flower Show and Hampton Court Flower Festival.
