Victoria Summerley
Award Winning Journalist & Writer
‘The Secret Gardeners is a WONDERFUL book. Just beautiful. It will live, page open, on my coffee table’ Prue Leith
Praise & Reviews
'This is such a beautiful book full of so many wonderful secret gardens and Hugo Rittson Thomas’s photographs are fabulous - a real joy'
Cath Kidston
'These are sublime confections, graced with stone-edged rills, Italianate pergolas and intricate grass labyrinths. This is a highly enjoyable book - armchair garden visiting at its very best'
Gardens Illustrated
About Victoria Summerley
Victoria Summerley was born in Surrey but grew up in Scotland. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1977 and joined the Evening News in Edinburgh as a graduate trainee journalist. She moved back to London in 1983 and has worked on The Times Higher Education Supplement, the Evening Standard, The Observer, and, from 2000 until 2012, The Independent where she was executive editor, and deputy editor of the i newspaper.
Victoria has always been a keen gardener, but first wrote about gardening when she was sent by Sir Max Hastings, then editor of the Evening Standard, to interview Sir Terence Conran about his design for the Standard’s Chelsea Flower Show garden in 1999. She wrote numerous articles about gardening and related issues while on The Independent, winning the prestigious Journalist of the Year award from the Garden Media Guild in 2010.
She lives in the Cotswolds, where she opens her garden for the National Gardens Scheme.