A rit Anderson came late to gardening — she spent twenty-five years in fashion before training at Capel Manor and turning up at Chelsea in 2013 with the RHS Fresh Talent prize. Three years later she took Gold at Hampton Court with a show garden built around climate change and renewable energy. The subject has shaped her work, and her writing, ever since.
She presents on BBC Two's Gardeners' World, hosts the Growing Greener podcast, and sits on the board of the National Garden Scheme — using each platform to argue that horticulture is no longer separable from the climate it is conducted in, and that planting choices, source habits and a taste for ornament will all have to be re-examined in that light.
With Henrik Sjöman she wrote The Essential Tree Selection Guide, a working directory of more than five hundred trees chosen for the climates we are now planting into rather than the ones we used to assume. She lives and works in London.
