Janet lives and works at Rose Castle garden, Cumbria, England. She also lives for part of the year in a hill-top village in Lunigiana, northern Tuscany. Garden writing and horticultural copywriting commissions are welcome.

'Diary of a Bishop's Garden'

Published in 2009, 'Diary of a Bishop's Garden' is Janet's first book. It is a description of one year in the life of the garden at Rose Castle, the official Cumbrian residence of the Bishop of Carlisle for 800 years. The book also contains plant lists and detailed information about the garden's history.

Commissions presently include:

Features for the ‘English Garden’ magazine.

Monthly gardening column for 'Cumbria Life' magazine.

Weekly gardening column for the ‘Cumberland News’ newspaper. Articles cover aspects of gardening and gardens from a northern perspective.

Previous garden work:

Head Gardener: Holdenby House, Northamptonshire, England
Head Gardener: Eishken Estate, Isle of Lewis, Western Isles, Scotland
Head Gardener: National Trust for Scotland, Haddo House, Aberdeenshire, Scotland