Naomi Slade is a freelance writer, editor, author and occasional photographer. In addition to monthly columns in Berkshire and Buckinghamshire Life and Kitchen Garden magazine, she is a regular contributor to many national horticultural and lifestyle magazines.

Her interests include plants, people, botany, environment and design and Naomi addresses these wide-ranging subjects with clarity and confidence, producing fresh, readable copy. She also contributes to websites including RHS Online and is a regular radio guest.

Having worked in the gardening media since 1999, Naomi went freelance in 2003 and swiftly found her feet writing features and editing on Gardeners' World Magazine and the Guardian. She also managed a selection of horticultural projects that drew on her previous experience working for Gardening Which? Magazine, organising award-winning exhibits at Chelsea and other RHS shows and running successful event portfolio.

Brought up in Bristol and rural Wales Naomi started gardening young. She nurtured a passion for natural history and the environment and studied Biology at York University. While lab work never appealed, the grounding in ecology, plant physiology and biochemistry remains surprisingly useful.

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