Jane Moore
In a horticultural career spanning 30 years Jane Moore has been a head gardener at a Benedictine Abbey, a writer for national gardening magazines and newspapers, a researcher on BBC gardening programmes and a TV presenter on BBC Gardeners’ World.
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Biography
As featured in Sunday Times Gardening Books of the Year 2021.
In a horticultural career spanning 30 years Jane Moore has been a head gardener at a Benedictine Abbey, a writer for national gardening magazines and newspapers, a researcher on BBC gardening programmes and a TV presenter on BBC Gardeners’ World. Among her many accolades are a Chelsea Flower Show medal, IPC Magazines Practical Writer Award and awards from the Garden Media Guild including Journalist of the Year in 2007, runner up Columnist of the Year in 2015 and finalist for Practical Journalist of the Year in 2016. She is the author of Gardener’s World 101 Ideas for Veg from Small Spaces (BBC Books 2016).
Currently Jane is Group Head Gardener for Andrew Brownsword Hotels, AA Small Hotel Group of the Year. Jane is developing and redesigning several of these gardens to bring them up to the same high standards as The Bath Priory where she has worked as Head Gardener since 2003. The gardens are an integral feature of The Bath Priory with three acres of billowing borders, meadow and lawns which she has developed with her trademark passion, enthusiasm and experience. Jane also has been a long-standing and well endorsed brand ambassador for Stihl.
Books
Jane's book PLANTING FOR BUTTERFLIES is a beautifully illustrated guide to encouraging butterflies into your garden.
Her second book in the same series, PLANTING FOR WILDLIFE was published in 2021, followed by PLANTING FOR GARDEN BIRDS in 2022, which has been translated into German.
THE LITTLE BOOK OF CROPS IN SMALL SPOTS was published in March 2022 and has been translated into Dutch. Her latest book, PLANTING WILDFLOWERS, was published in March 2024.
