Ann-Marie Powell | Mark Laurence | Jon Wheatley | Steve Bradley | Mary Payne
Steve Taylor | Hannah Charman |
FREE TICKETS for talks and the English Garden Roadshow Q & A sessions available on the day from the information tent
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Ann-Marie Powell - Let's Chat about Gardening
Friday 8th June 2006-
12.15pm
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Ann-Marie Powell
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Anne-Marie Powell has been immersed in gardening for so long and is endlessly enthusiastic about all elements of the garden. Since 1998 she has been the friendly face fronting a number of garden design-related shows including Channel Four's Garden Doctors, Lost Gardens and Real Gardens, Take Three Gardeners and most particularly this year as the BBC lunch time presenter for The Chelsea Flower Show.
Anne-Marie takes her gardening very seriously. Seriously enough to gain her a distinction for her National Certificate in Horticulture Landscape Studies and Garden Design in 1995. She also followed up this course with a City & Guilds examination in Hard Construction (Landscape & Garden).
As well as an accomplished presenter and student, Anne-Marie is a proficient writer and has published a couple of books on her favourite subjects, hardscape, garden design and build. Anne-Marie also contributes regularly to Guardian Weekend, Ideal Home and The Observer and still finds time to manage her own company Ann-Marie Powell Designs. |
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Mark Laurence - Gardening as if the Future Mattered
Saturday 9th & Sunday10th June 2006 - 12.15pm
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 Mark Laurence
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Sustainable landscape,garden,environmental design is the forte of Mark Laurence, an award-winning international designer based in West Sussex, UK. Mark specialises in sustainability, water gardens,systems (biofiltration), edible landscapes and the development and use of design psychology; all done with a health-giving, healing approach to both the place and the user.
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Jon Wheatley - The English Garden Roadshow
Daily at 11am, 1pm and 3pm |
Jon Wheatley
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Jon Wheatley is an International and National Flower Show Judge.
He has designed and built no less than five Chelsea Flower Show Gold
Medal winning stands and seven gold medal winning stands at Tatton
Park, Hampton Court and the NEC. He is a Lecturer and Horticultural
Consultant for a number of Colleges and an Arboricultural and Forestry
Consultant. On top of all this he owns and runs a bedding plant nursery
and landscape management business in the Chew Valley.
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Steve Bradley - The English Garden Roadshow
Daily at 11am, 1pm and 3pm |
Steve Bradley
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Steve Bradley is a freelance garden writer and broadcaster who studied
horticulture at Writtle, Cannington and Pershore Colleges, achieving the
RHS Master of Horticulture Diploma. He has worked for BBC and
independent television stations as a presenter and was researcher /
presenter on three official Chelsea Flower Show videos.
As an author, he
has over 30 titles to his name, including Propagation Basics, winner of the
Garden Writers’ Guild Award for Best Practical Book of 2002. In October
2002, he joined Peter Seabrook as gardening correspondent for the Sun
newspaper. As a magazine contributor he is behind the ‘Masterclass’ series
in Gardens Monthly, and writes specialist articles for the RHS journal and
BBC Gardeners World Magazine.
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Mary Payne - The English Garden Roadshow
Daily at 11am, 1pm and 3pm |
Mary Payne
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Mary Payne trained in horticulture at Studley College and the Cambridge
University Botanic Garden. She lectured at the University of Bath for
10 years and holds the prestigious Master of Horticulture from the RHS,
awarded as their top student.
She has been a guest presenter on Carltons
weekly gardening programme “Garden Calendar” for three years as well as
a series on house plants for a HTV lunchtime magazine.
er own garden
has been featured in the HTV series “All Gardens Great and Small” She is
also responsible for the innovative prairie style planting scheme at Lady
Farm near Bristol which has been featured in all the major gardening
publications and was voted one of the top 10 gardens by Gardeners World. In 2004 Mary was awarded an OBE for her service to horticulture |
Guided Herb Walk
with members of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists
the herbalists
- Steve Taylor & Hannah Charman |
Steve Taylor
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Steve Taylor |
Steve became interested in herbal medicine after travelling widely in South America and Africa. He realised that there was a need to find a sustainable approach to using nature's resources before the exploitation of the natural world caused the irreversible decline of eco-systems. Witnessing the cure of his wife's severe bout of dysentery using plant remedies he realised it would be possible to have a positive impact on people's lives and challenge the assumption that nature can only benefit us through the exploitation of resources rather than by respecting the gifts of the environment. |
| Steve then studied herbal medicine for four years, graduating in 1994 with a Diploma in Herbal Medicine and joining the National Institute of Medical Herbalists. He now runs a clinic called the Medicine Garden in Emsworth, Hants and has a passionate interest in using native plants and rediscovering their folk medicine applications, providing cures for many modern-day ailments. He has been running a research project using herbal poultices treat leg ulcers. This treatment was discovered during research on the Ethnomedica project. This is a project initiated by researchers at Kew Gardens to preserve the wealth of knowledge about the local use of plant remedies which have been passed down the generations by word of mouth. |
Hannah Charman
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Hannah Charman |
Hannah graduated from Middlesex University in 1999 with an Honours Degree in Herbal Medicine, and having returned from a year's travelling, now works at the Medicine Garden, and 'Natural Balance' in Southsea.
She has had a keen interest in alternative therapies at the age of fifteen, when she used them to aid her recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). Hannah has been particularly interested in CFS since then, and welcomes patients with this condition. |
Hannah also qualified as a Rei-Ki channel in 1993 with internationally renowned Rei-Ki Master, Barbara McGregor, going on to become Barbara's youngest graduate in the Advanced Level in 1994. She has since been heavily involved in the organisation and running of Rei-Ki seminars both in the UK and Australia, which has given her a unique insight into the causes and treatment of dis-ease from a holistic perspective.
Steve and Hannah will be taking a guided walk at 3pm on Saturday and Sunday to discover the healing magic of Stansted Park.
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