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Susie is a freelance writer, photographer, author and artist. A lifelong and passionate gardener, she spent 23 years at Chesters Walled Garden on Hadrian’s Wall making it a place much loved by visitors. Here she developed a free flowing planting style, which owes much to herbs, wildflowers, childhood plants and unusual perennials.
She is currently creating a new garden in a hidden valley in Northumberland; each step of the way is being shared with readers of the English Garden magazine in a two year long series on making a garden from scratch. Susie loves to use materials from the surrounding land, and much of the work involves drystone walling, cobble laying, hurdle making and green woodworking.
A regular walker, Susie walks the hills of Northumberland whenever she can.
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Susie contributes regular articles to the gardening press as well as designing gardens, running courses and lecturing widely (Listed in the RHS Register of Speakers)
Course tutor for venues such as Higham Hall near Cockermouth
Susie has a wide range of photographs of herbs, unusual perennials, planting schemes, wildflowers, garden wildlife and northern gardens
She is Press and Publicity Officer for the National Gardens Scheme in Northumberland
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For the English Garden magazine, Susie is chronicling the creation of her new garden in a major series over 2 years, using her own photographs or those of her photographer son, Thomas.
Collaborative work with children's book illustrator and printmaker Kim Lewis will lead to a Hay Meadows exhibition in July 2011
Garden columnist for the Northumbrian magazine
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Herbs (New Plant Library 1999)
Origanum; The Herb marjoram (Plant Heritage 1999)
Gardens of Northumberland and the Borders (Sanderson Books 2006)
A Sense of Herbs (Cogito Books 2007)
The Thyme Handbook co-author (Plant Heritage 2009)
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Environmental and conservation issues, wildlife, wildflowers, the landscape and walks of the North Pennines, Northumberland and the Lake District, upland hay meadows, archaeology and heritage skills.
Susie's son Thomas is in the local Search and Rescue Team as well as teaching outdoor activities
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