April 07, 2024

Nicola Hope - Gardening Organically!

45 minutes

Hello and welcome back to a brand-new season - we’re back for a whopping sixth season of the podcast with new guests and brand-new stories and conversations and this time I'm using this as my chance to celebrate the amazing women of horticulture with a season I'm calling 'A Celebration of Women in Plants'!

What happens when you just know that gardening is your future? Well, you find yourself a job working for our future king of course! And that’s essentially what happened to my guest this week! Nicola Hope started her life in gardening by working at Highgrove, the then home of Princes Charles. From the age of 15 she worked there, on and off during school holidays and since then has gone on to work in other high profile gardens and has developed a huge passion for organic gardening in particular. In our conversation we discuss Highgrove, working for the singer Sting and much more, enjoy!

You can find out more from Nicola by following her on Instagram where you’ll find as @nicolahopegardener. Nicola also delivers talks up and down the country on a wide range of subjects and find out more about that and more on her website nicolahope.com

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