Ambra Edwards
Ambra Edwards is a garden writer with a special interest in garden history, and above all, in the people who make gardens.
Recent articles by Ambra Edwards
Take a sneak peek around this private seaside garden with its own jetty in the UK’s most expensive area
Helen Elks-Smith’s clever design for a garden overlooking Poole Harbour makes the most of its impressive views and is planted to resist the fierce winds
This stylish modern country garden around a listed farmhouse in Dorset is the rural idyll of your dreams
Collaboration between client and designer has resulted in this beautifully curated garden, which exudes a bucolic calm and sits in harmony with the ancient Dorset countryside
The history of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
With the RHS Chelsea Flower Show returning in May, we get back into the Chelsea mood with our take on the highs (and occasional lows) of the Chelsea Flower Show.
Discover the beautiful National Dahlia Collection and the person who helped save it from disappearing
The National Dahlia Collection has had several homes since its inception in the 1980s, and now, under the care of a dedicated dahlia aficionado, it has been rescued and relocated once more to a new site in Cornwall. Photos Jason Ingram
Meet the man on a mission to transform our roadside verges into wildlife havens
The ecologist who hatched a simple but effective plan to bring more moths and butterflies into our lives, on creating the right conditions for wildflowers to thrive.
A garden that merges into the New Forest, designed by Helen Elks-Smith
For an eco-friendly home on the edge of the New Forest, designer Helen Elks-Smith has created a spectacular garden that brings nature to the door.
Words Ambra Edwards Words Richard Bloom
Helena Petitt, RHS director of gardens and shows, on engaging children and novice gardeners
The Director of Gardens and Shows at the RHS on her life as bouncer, staying calm in a crisis and engaging children and new entrants to gardening. Portrait by Andrew Montgomery
Cooks Farm in Somerset: ancient woodland and flower-rich meadows
Set within a wild landscape of ancient woodland and flower-rich meadows, an evolving Somerset garden teems with life. Words Ambra Edwards, photographs Claire Takacs
Gertrude Jekyll: discover the life of the remarkable garden designer and writer
Discover the legacy of Gertrude Jekyll, the 'Queen Victoria of horticulture'
Keith Wiley on experimental gardening and the need to take risks
The passionate plantsman and owner of Wildside on his love of the outdoors and why he believes gardeners need to be bold, experimental and willing to take a few risks. Portrait Charlie Hopkinson
A Devon garden filled with winter colour
Jo Hynes has filled her Devon garden with snowdrops, cyclamen and other early flowers. Words Ambra Edwards. Photography Richard Bloom.
Neil Lucas on ornamental grasses and good-sense gardening
The indefatigable Dorset plantsman and UK’s leading expert on ornamental grasses, on good-sense gardening and becoming a pioneer in promoting sustainable ways of gardening. Portrait by Justin Foulkes
Nurseryman Dave Root on growing show plants and why he relishes a challenge
The nurseryman who’s grown show plants for the biggest designers in the business, royalty and even Alan Titchmarsh, on why he always relishes a challenge – and the trickier the better. Words by Ambra Edwards, portrait Jason Ingram.