Chris Collins has a CV most gardeners can only dream of, taking in two Royal Botanic Gardens and the green space at 'The King’s Church' Westminster Abbey.

With a long TV history, Chris has popped up on everything from Blue Peter - where he ran the iconic London garden for nine years and then created a new one at the BBC's MediaCityUK studio in Salford - to Gardeners' World, This Morning, Children in Need, Garden Invaders and Turf Wars.

Chris trained at the Royal Botanical Garden in Edinburgh before working on diverse projects all over the globe, including Africa's oldest botanical gardens in Cameroon and a stint in Japan teaching British gardening techniques. Chris returned to the UK in 1998 and his career blossomed further at Kew and Westminster Abbey.

Chris was recently awarded fellowship of the City & Guilds Institute and voted in the Horticultural Week top 50 Gardening influencers.

Chris currently lives in north London and is an expert urban organic gardener tending his own high-rise balcony and allotment. Chris co-presents Garden Organic’s podcast, The Organic Gardening Podcast. - https://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/podcast