Our Tutors

All the tutors on our Diploma courses are experts in their particular subjects, their talks comprise of illustrated lectures with notes for future reference.

The EGS Distance Learning tutors have been trained at the English Gardening School by many of today’s leading garden designers, horticulturists and plantspeople.

Students often use our courses as a stepping stone to a new career.

Rosemary Alexander
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Rosemary Alexander VMM(Rhs) AIHort FSGD Principal, owner and founder of The English Gardening School, is one of the UK’s most influential garden designers and writers. She combines teaching, giving masterclasses...Read More

Nick Bailey
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Nick has worked across many sectors of horticulture over the last 30+ years, including nursery stock production, garden management, garden design, teaching, public speaking, horticultural consultancy, writing and broadcasting.  Nick...Read More

Martin Duncan
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Martin Studied Commercial Horticulture at Greenmount, County Antrim Northern Ireland and Advanced Landscape Design & Construction with NEBBS Management at the Welsh College of Horticulture.  He has held Head Gardener roles...Read More

Sarah Eberle
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Sarah qualified as a landscape architect in 1980 and has spent most of her career working as a garden designer. She is renowned for her gardens at RHS shows and...Read More

Edward Flint
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One of our most popular regular tutors, and a true ‘hands-on’ gardener, Ed is Head Gardener in a private family garden on the Kent / Sussex border where the garden...Read More

Caroline Jackson
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Caroline is currently a gardener and teacher.  She works for Marian Boswall Landscape Architects as a roving head gardener in the management of newly planted gardens along with teaching for...Read More

Gillian Lotter
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Graduating from the English Gardening School with Distinction in 1999, Gillian has a solid background in garden design and education.  In addition to tutoring the distance learning courses at EGS,...Read More

Ben Pope
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After studying and working in horticulture for the last 18 years, Ben is currently enjoying leading a team to maintain and develop a garden in West Sussex.  He regularly speaks...Read More

Catriona Rowbotham
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Catriona Rowbotham

Course Director

Catriona Rowbotham is an experienced architect turned competition winning garden designer, bringing 30+ years of design experience to her teaching.  After working for renowned architectural practices, she set up her...Read More

Eleanor Terry
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Eleanor studied at Kingston Maurward College gaining a diploma in practical and theoretical horticulture and going on to have a successful gardening business working along the Jurassic coast.  In 2018...Read More

Tina Woodward
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Tina’s deep rooted passion for gardening began as a child growing up in Kent, the ‘Garden of England’. She studied gardening at The Garden House Brighton before she ran her own...Read More

Rachel Wyld
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Rachel Wyld

Vice Principal

Rachel brings a unique blend of artistic vision and technical expertise to the school, with over a decade of experience in spatial design. Originally training in sculpture, in 2020 Rachel studied on...Read More

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