Jenny was born in Oxford and has, until recently, always lived in Oxfordshire.  She has now moved to rural Shropshire where her new wildlife garden is beginning to take shape.  She was educated at Oxford University, where she gained a Master's Degree in Plant Ecology, carrying out research in the famous Wytham Woods.   As a keen gardener, her interest in plants naturally combined with her passion for wildlife, and her expertise in wildlife gardening grew to the extent that she set up a plant nursery, specializing in wildflowers, native shrubs and trees and cottage garden nectar plants.  As the nursery expanded, she found she was in demand to teach courses, give talks and write about wildlife gardening, and she eventually decided to close the nursery to concentrate on teaching and writing about wildlife gardening, natural history and the countryside.

She has worked with a great variety of organisations including the Royal Horticultural Society, English Nature, Atropos, Ernest Charles, the Adult Residential Colleges Association (ARCA), Growing Native, Usborne Books, Complete Gardens, Osmia Publications, and several of the Wildlife Trusts.  She is currently working with Haiths, the wildbird food company, Oxfordshire County Council, and the organic gardening company Wiggly Wigglers.   Jenny and her former garden in Oxfordshire have featured on television programmes such as Gardener's World, How Does Your Garden Grow, The Oxford Channel and the BBC News.  She has also contributed regularly to BBC Radio Oxford as a wildlife expert.

Jenny is a keen photographer and photographing plants, wildlife, gardens and landscapes is an important part of her work.  Her pictures have been published in many magazines and newspapers and on websites, as well as being used to illustrate her own books and articles. She has plans to write several more books and is currently writing the text for a book on garden birds with the artist Adrian Smart.

Jenny's guides to Wildlife Gardening can be found in many mail order catalogues, Royal Horticultural Society shops, at The Lost Gardens of Heligan, and Amazon.  She has written for BBC Easy Gardening Magazine, Guardian Unlimited, the website of the Guardian newspaper, the Countryman, the Oxford Times and Oxford Mail, Butterfly Conservation, Spaces Magazine, several of the Wildlife Trust's magazines and the Daily Express.  She currently writes regularly for Country and Border Life,  Organic Gardening Magazine, and has recently contributed to New Consumer Magazine and the Ecologist Magazine.   

Teaching a one day course at Wiggly Wigglers

It all began at an early age.....