Chris Beardshaw

With a lifelong passion for plants and landscape design, Chris Beardshaw is a familiar face on television, inspiring generations of gardeners new and old.

Chris, from Worcestershire, studied BA Hons, graduating in 1994, followed by a PGDip Landscape Architecture at the Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education. This was a predecessor of the University of the Gloucestershire, from which he received an Honorary Fellowship in 2004.

Today, he has more than 36 design awards and 13 RHS Gold Medals, including the Morgan Stanley Garden for the NSPCC at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, which received the Best Show Garden Award.

Chris’ broadcasting career began in 1997, and he has presented a wide variety of shows on television and radio, including Gardeners’ World on BBC2, Hidden Gardens and The Flying Gardener. He is also panellist on BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time.

Chris is director of Chris Beardshaw Garden Design, which he founded 19 years ago in the Cotswolds, and is also an author. His book, 100 Plants That Almost Changed the World, won an Independent Publishers award in the United States, and he is a freelance writer contributing to a variety of gardening and lifestyle publications.

Photo by Richard Kendal.