Who is Frances Tophill Head Gardener?
Frances is currently Head Gardener and Grower at the Sharpham Trust estate in Devon, and in 2022 was awarded best show garden for a sustainable garden design and build at Gardeners’ World Live. Frances got into gardening from an early age, helping out around the garden at home, and after overly ambitiously designing a terraced landscape in a planter (given to her by her mum), age 7, she was hooked. Frances’ first book, First Time Gardener, was published in 2015 and she has kept on publishing ever since.