Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
Jane Margaret Fearnley-Whittingstall is a writer and garden designer with a diploma in landscape architecture. She won two gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show.
Personal life
Daughter of Colonel John Hawdon Lascelles OBE of the King's Royal Rifle Corps and Janet Hamilton Campbell Kidston, Fearnley-Whittingstall and her husband, Robert Fearnley-Whittingstall, of a landed gentry family formerly of Watford and Hawkswick, Hertfordshire, have two children: Sophy and Hugh, the celebrity chef. They have six grandchildren.Career
Fearnley-Whittingstall gained a Diploma in Landscape Architecture from Gloucestershire College of Art and Design in 1980 and has designed numerous gardens in the UK and abroad.From 2005 to 2007 she wrote a weekly column about family life, in The Times. She has also written for The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Oldie, Woman's Weekly, The Garden, The English Garden and Gardens Illustrated.
Books
Fearnley-Whittingstall has published the following books:- Rose Gardens: Their History and Design
- Historic Gardens: A Guide to 160 British Gardens of Interest
- Ivies
- Gardening Made Easy: A Step-By-Step Guide to Planning, Preparing, Planting, Maintaining and Enjoying Your Garden
- Garden Plants Made Easy
- Peonies - the Imperial Flower
- The Garden: an English Love Affair
- The Good Granny Guide: Or How to Be a Modern Grandmother
- The Good Granny Diary
- The Good Granny Cookbook
- The Good Granny Companion
- For Better for Worse - a light-hearted guide to wedded bliss, also published as 'Happily Ever After'
- The Ministry of Food - Thrifty wartime ways to feed your family today
- ''The Pocket Book of Good Grannies''