Christine Helen Walkden is a British television presenter and gardener, best known for her appearances on gardening programmes and ''

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''. She has hosted her own series centred on her home garden in

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, ''Christine's Garden'', on the

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Career

Walkden trained at the Lancashire College of Agriculture (now known as

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) and then worked at two experimental horticultural stations, before moving to the Royal Botanic Gardens,

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based at

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, where she looked after the growing side of the seed physiology unit. After several more jobs she undertook a career change and became a freelance horticulturist, lecturing nationally and internationally. She has presented on

’s ''

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'' and various other TV and radio programmes and is a past winner of the Garden Writers’ Guild Radio Broadcasting Award. In 1993, Walkden's book, ''The Houseplant Almanac'', was published, and in 2007 ''A Year in Christine's Garden – The Secret Diary of a Garden Lover'' was published to accompany the television series. In 2011, her third book, ''No-Nonsense Vegetable Gardening'', was published. Walkden previously wrote a weekly column in '' Amateur Gardening'' magazine and is a regular contributor to ''Choice'' magazine. Walkden also appeared as a guest on the December 2008 special of '' Shooting Stars''. Walkden is a regular contributor to ''Jersey Choice Plants'' and ''Quality Garden Tools''. In 2013, she presented an episode of ''

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''. In 2014, Walkden presented the BBC series ''Glorious Gardens from Above'' where she viewed various large gardens in the UK from a

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and visited them on the ground.

References

External links

Her websiteFurther info from Writtle College, EssexRead her articles for www.qualitygardentools.com
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