A new generation of online female gardeners have been busy building a community and breaking down barriers by inspiring and instigating conversations around the tribulations and triumphs of cultivating practical and beautiful green spaces. We have reached out to three wonderful women who are part of this wave of change.
At the beginning of March 2020, Neil Tyler had never so much as picked up a trowel or planted a seed in his life. A retired electrical engineer who had spent many years in rented accommodation in the Middle East and West Indies, the pleasures of gardening had entirely passed him by. Then came lockdown.