Author Kendra Wilson
Kendra Wilson

Kendra Wilson

Kendra Wilson is a garden writer with a background in visuals for magazines and newspapers, having cut her teeth at Vogue as a picture editor, and, after a graphics degree at Central St Martins, as the designer of Observer Food Monthly. During her WRAGs training at Cottesbrooke Hall in Northamptonshire (as a practical gardener), she began writing about gardens online and in print. Kendra is the author of a number of books, including My Garden is a Car Park and Other Design Dilemmas (2017), a book of the year for the Sunday Times, Wall Street Journal and Gardens Illustrated, and, most recently, Garden for the Senses (2022). Kendra’s most fervent interest is to draw attention to imaginatively conceived spaces, in which design and horticulture work with nature, rather than against it.

Recent articles by Kendra Wilson
The first of Frances Palmer’s two cutting gardens, which spills on to a repurposed tennis court, housing over 500 dahlias between them. The studio barn was built around salvaged beams from a local 1790s house.

Discover the dahlias in Frances Palmer's Connecticut garden, where she turned her tennis court into a flower patch

A gardener as well as a renowned potter, dahlia devotee Frances Palmer uses her own blooms to adorn her vessels, grown in her imaginatively conceived Connecticut garden.
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Stokesay Flowers

Want a vase full of home-grown roses? Here are the best roses to grow for cutting with tips from expert rose growers

Victoria and Barney Martin of Stokesay Flowers give their advice on growing roses for cutting.
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Portraits of Victoria in the Cutting Garden at Stokesay Flowers surrounded by Rosa Wild Rover ('Dichirap'), Digitalis purpurea, Geums, Eremurus, Nepeta and astrantias

A rose-tinted vision of a classic English walled garden filled with luxurious stems

A willingness to experiment and an easy-going attitude have served Victoria and Barney Martin well in their quest to establish Stokesay Flowers. Words Kendra Wilson, photographs Jason Ingram
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Why healthy soil is good for the climate

Having healthy soil can help the climate. Here the Land Gardeners, Henrietta Courtauld and Bridget Elworthy, explain how to maintain good soil health. Words Kendra Wilson, photographs Claire Takacs
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A New England Garden designed by Richard Hartlage

A patchwork patterned garden in Connecticut

Throughout this New England garden, designer Richard Hartlage has planted swathes of single species to create a dramatic patchwork pattern. Words Kendra Wilson, photographs Claire Takacs
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