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My professional horticultural services

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Professional services

As an experienced horticultural author, journalist, radio and TV presenter and web editor, I can provide a wide range of services.

Here is a quick round-up of my experience.

• I am the the Web Editor for the Royal Horticultural Society Online Before this I set up and ran the Society's e-commerce engine www.grogro.com
  
• I am BBC Radio Cambridgeshire's gardening correspondent and a guest presenter on other local BBC radio gardening programmes.
  
• I am a regular member of various gardening question times panels at large flower shows - such as Hampton Court Palace, Harrogate, Malvern and Southport - as well as smaller, local events.
  
• I write copy and record horticultural and general promotional messages for Garden Radio - the in-house music and messaging service for garden centres.
  
• I have written, edited, proofread and checked a number of gardening books.
  
• I am Newsletter Producer and Web Editor for The Garden Media Guild - and was Chairman from 2000-2003.
  
• I write gardening articles for lifestyle magazines and websites.
  
• I provide answers for the Daily Mail's Readers Ask page.
  
• I give talks to gardening clubs and horticultural societies on a variety of subjects, and am on the Royal Horticultural Society's Register of Speakers.
  
• I am on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Institute of Horticulture's magazine The Horticulturist.
  
• I judge gardens and horticultural shows, and have judged garden centres for the Garden Centre Association.

• I was the Gardening Editor for Garden News (seven years) - Britain's leading weekly gardening publication. Before that I was Technical Writer for Garden Answers magazine (three years).
• Previously I managed a large independent garden centre.
• I was a presenter for seven years on Gardeners' Diary - a weekly gardening TV programme - which was networked to ITV regions and Sky TV.
• I answered readers' questions for Garden Answers magazine.
• I have a BSc degree in applied botany from Reading University.

Services offered

From my wealth of experience I can offer a wide range of professional services. These include:

• Writing, editing & proofreading articles
• Writing, editing & proofreading books
• TV presenting
• Radio presenting
• Question Time Panellist
• Producing catalogues and brochures (right)
• Problem solving
• PR activity
• Giving talks & lectures

I can also offer a full words and pictures service thanks to my association with top horticultural and gardening photographer Tim Sandall.
Tim works for the top British gardening publications - Garden News, BBC Gardeners' World and the RHS's The Garden.
Contact Tim or I for details.
Tim can be contacted by phone on 01733 237632 or e-mail tim.sandall@BTInternet.com.

If you want to know more, send an e-mail to: geoff@gardenforum.demon.co.uk

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