About GardenersWorld.com and BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine has been the UK’s best-loved gardening title for over 30 years. And since launching in 2007, GardenersWorld.com has been the go-to online destination for gardeners and plant lovers, now reaching more than 30 million users per year.

Part of the brand family that includes the Gardeners’ World BBC TV programme and ever-popular live show BBC Gardeners’ World Live, we also publish special editions, a hugely successful podcast, an exciting programme of live online masterclasses and host a range of immersive, gardening-themed travel experiences.

We empower our loyal readers and website visitors with the practical skills and confidence to create a beautiful garden. We help them realise their gardening dreams with expert advice, easy-to-follow guides and inspirational ideas. Appealing to complete beginners and seasoned experts alike, our content is clear, accessible and engaging.

Our projects, features, and videos feature trusted experts such as Monty Don, Carol Klein, Alan Titchmarsh, Arit Anderson and Frances Tophill. Our in-depth product reviews and buying guides help you choose the very best gardening tools, kit and accessories and we work with carefully chosen partners to deliver great deals and discounts on plants and seeds.

Whether you grow plants on a windowsill or a balcony, in billowing borders or a verdant veg plot, GardenersWorld.com and BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine give you the know-how you need.

Meet the team

Daniel Haynes - Editor, GardenersWorld.com

Daniel Haynes studied horticulture at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, following a previous career as a web designer. He joined GardenersWorld.com in 2007 as sub-editor, becoming editor in 2010. Since then, he's led content production across the site, including features, Grow Guides and practical videos and overseen the creation of Secret Garden, our exclusive online space for subscribers. The site has won the coveted Website of the Year Award from the Garden Media Guild three times, most recently in 2021.

Kay Maguire - Reviews editor

Reviews Editor, Kay Maguire trained at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and has been writing and making films about gardening ever since. She has written for websites and magazines, including The Garden and Amateur Gardening, was Horticultural Editor on BBC Gardeners' World Magazine for five years and has also written a number of books on a range of gardening topics from growing house plants to making the most of a small space.

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Kate Bradbury - Writer

Kate Bradbury is an award-winning author and journalist, specialising in wildlife gardening. She edits the wildlife pages of BBC Gardeners' World Magazine, writes for The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Garden (RHS), and BBC Wildlife and Countryfile magazines, and is the author of several books, including Wildlife Gardening: For Everyone and Everything and The Wildlife Gardener (Bloomsbury). A patron of Froglife, Kate lives and breathes wildlife gardening, and is currently transforming a tired patio garden into her own wildlife oasis.

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Sue Fisher - Writer

Sue’s extensive horticultural career spans over 40 years, starting with a decade in the garden centre and nursery industry before developing into an accomplished gardening writer, designer, and speaker. Sue writes regularly for BBC Gardeners' World Magazine and GardenersWorld.com, as well as Garden Answers magazine. She has written 10 books on subjects including container gardening, plants for small gardens and designing with colour, as well as co-authoring other books with some of the biggest names in gardening. Sue lives and gardens in West Devon where she combines her passions for plants alongside sustainable and wildlife-friendly gardening in her own ¾ acre plot, and also advises on and designs private gardens.

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Veronica Peerless - Writer

Veronica Peerless is a trained horticulturalist and garden designer. She was deputy editor of Which? Gardening magazine and worked as a freelance features editor at The English Garden, editor of the Industry Zone section of The Garden Design Journal and Contributing Editor at GardenersWorld.com. She has written for many publications including The Telegraph, The English Garden magazine, The Garden Design Journal, House Beautiful and BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine. She was horticultural consultant on The Gardener's Year (Dorling Kindersley, 2014) and contributed to 1001 Plants You Must Grow Before You Die (Quintessence, 2016). Her bestselling book, How Not To Kill Your Houseplant (Dorling Kindersley), was published in 2017.

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Alex David - Reviews writer

Alex is the Digital Reviews Writer for BBC Gardeners’ World. He puts a wide range of gardening products to the test and is always across the latest trends. Before Gardeners’ World, Alex learnt his reviewing techniques at the Good Housekeeping Institute, testing a wide variety of household appliances. When not writing, Alex can be found (unsurprisingly) in the garden, walking, or visiting galleries and exhibitions.

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Cinead McTernan - Reviews editor

Senior Reviews Writer for GardenersWorld.com, Cinead McTernan also writes for national newspapers and magazines, including The Telegraph, The Express, The English Garden, BBC Gardeners’ World, Kew and The National Trust. She edited The Edible Garden and the garden section of The Simple Things magazine, and was deputy editor of The English Garden. She has worked as assistant producer for BBC1’s Garden Rescue, and as horticultural researcher for BBC 2’s Gardeners’ World and the BBC’s coverage of The Chelsea Flower Show. She has written three books, Grow Your Own Botanicals, One Pot Gourmet Gardener and Kitchen Garden Experts. Her fourth book, City Veg, is due April 2022.

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