A serendipitous house rental in London many years ago re-sparked a love of plants that would eventually lead to a career change into garden design and horticultural sustainability for Alison Jenkins. Her first career was in the art world, but she now runs successful workshops from her smallholding in the tranquil Somerset countryside, near Bath.
‘I loved London in my twenties and early thirties and as I’d grown up in a small market town in Shropshire it felt really exciting to be somewhere where there was a lot going on,’ Alison explains. She studied for an MA in Art History at Goldsmiths College while working in galleries, organising exhibitions of contemporary
