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Commercial gardening & horticultural trade services

As an experienced gardening author, journalist, radio and TV presenter and web editor, I can provide a wide range of professional services to the gardening trade, gardening companies, garden centres etc.

My gardening trade and commercial services include:

Press and PR campaigns

Brochure and catalogue writing, production & printing

New product advice, testing & promotion
I'm the product tester for Garden News

Talks at flower shows

Training for garden centre staff

E-mail me if you want to know more

View my CV (24KB pdf download)

Below are just a few of the commercial and PR services I can provide.

Trade catalogues

I have produced the trade catalogue for Greenacres Horticultural Supplies/Greenacres Direct since 1999.

View the Greenacres Horticultural Supplies/Greenacres Direct catalogue (2.2MB pdf download)

PR activity

I am the Trade PR rep for The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company.

I have been involved with promoting a number of gardening companies and products, including launching new products onto the market.

I'm currently working with Bosch Power Tools to help promote the company's new products, especially the Ciso Cordless Secateurs. This has involved talking to groups and producing practical video.
View the Bosch pruning video

The latest product I'm working on is the FIGO flexible connector, which was launched to much acclaim at Glee 2009.

View the latest FIGO press release (240KB pdf download)

I've also instigated a PR campaign for Greenacres Horticultural Supplies. View the press releases:

Don't let worms spoil your lawn (204KB pdf download)

Grow your own - grow bumper crops (196KB pdf download)

Ironing out lawn problems (200KB pdf download)

New organic fertilisers (1880KB pdf download)

The curse of rose blackspot (208KB pdf download)

 

To view pdf documents you will need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader. I strongly recommend that you download the latest version to prevent problems viewing them.
This is available free from the Adobe website. Click on the logo to visit the website.

Talks & Q&A sessions at shows

I have been involved with numerous flower and gardening shows, where I've given talks, practical demonstrations and sat on the panels of Q&A panels. These include RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Hampton Court Palace, Gardeners' World Live, Harrogate, Malvern, Southport and The Gardening Roadshow.

I'll be appearing on The Daily Mail Gardening Question Time Roadshow throughout 2010.

I'll be doing container and hanging basket demonstrations at the Summer Evenings at Frosts Garden Centres: June 10 @ Brampton; June 17 @ Willington.

I gave talks and provided one-to-one gardening and design advice at Grand Designs Live at the NEC Birmingham in October 2009 and at London Excel in May 2010.

 

If you want to know more, send an e-mail to: info@gardenforumhorticulture.co.uk