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Alys Fowler (born 9 November 1977) is a British horticulturist and journalist. She was a presenter on the long-running

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Early life and education

Fowler was born in Silchester, Hampshire, and had a rural childhood. Her father was a doctor, and her mother ran various businesses – she had 200 chickens and sold their eggs, trained gun dogs, and would dog-sit for Londoners. She was influenced by her mother's gardening talents and the degree of self-sufficiency it afforded the family. After leaving

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in 1996, she studied at the

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, and the

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in London, where she became interested in bringing a more organic and accessible aesthetic to landscape gardening. In 1998, she was awarded a Smithsonian Scholarship to study at the New York Botanical Gardens based in the

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. Fowler returned to the UK in 1999 to attend

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, where, in 2002, she completed a master's degree in Society, Science and the Environment.

Career

Fowler began working as a journalist for ''

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'', and ''Landscape Review''. In 2005, she worked for BBC ''

'' and '' Parks'' as a horticultural researcher. In 2006, she became Head Gardener of the BBC garden at Berryfields in Stratford-Upon-Avon, and created features at the ''Gardeners' World Live'' shows. In 2007 she published ''The Thrifty Gardener: How to Create a Stylish Garden for Next to Nothing''. In 2008, after appearing occasionally in her Berryfields role, she became a regular presenter on ''

'', and wrote a monthly blog on the programme's website. She was dropped by the BBC for the 2011 series, at the same time that

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's contract as main presenter was not renewed. She is published regularly in newspapers and magazines, including ''

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'', ''Gardeners' World Magazine'', ''Gardens Illustrated'', '' Amateur Gardening'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. In New York City, in 1998, she found ways of experiencing and creating green space, such as growing plants on her apartment's fire escape, and joining a garden-making community in Manhattan's Lower East Side which reused objects found in New York's streets and dumpsters. This became an influential period and spawned the idea for her first book in 2007, ''The Thrifty Gardener''. Filming for her BBC series, ''The Edible Garden'' – a.k.a. ''A Home-Grown Life'' – began in mid-2009, and the series aired on BBC 2 in April 2010. She explored community self-sustainability in the urban environment of South Birmingham. Her second book, ''The Edible Garden'', was published in March 2010 by

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to accompany the TV series. Continuing with eco-friendly gardening culture she focused on the benefits that allotments bring to the environment and those who work on them. In 2013, she presented an episode of ''

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''. She has a weekly column in

giving advice on growing vegetables, fruit and flowers.

Personal

Having previously lived in London, Fowler lives in Birmingham as of 2008.Alys Fowler on Money
4 June 2010 She came out as "gay. Or maybe bisexual" in 2016, ended her marriage, and wrote about both in The Guardian and in a March 2017 book, ''Hidden Nature: A Voyage Of Discovery''.

Bibliography

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References

External links

Fowler's Guardian profile
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