About Nick - Nick Bailey is a freelance horticulturist, best-selling author, award-winning TV presenter, garden designer and speaker. He has worked across many sectors of horticulture over the last 30 years, including nursery stock production, garden management, garden design, teaching, public speaking, writing and broadcasting.  Nick is a regular presenter on BBC 2’s Gardeners’ World to over 2.5million viewers. Nick Bailey studied Horticulture at Hadlow College and achieved a First Class Honours Degree in Landscape Design from Greenwich University. His film on “Plants associated with Shakespeare” for Gardeners’ World won best TV programme at the Garden Media Guild Awards 2016.  He began his broadcasting career presenting Gardens Wild and Wonderful in South Africa (1995-6), spent four years as a panellist on BBC Radio Norfolk’s Garden Party and has appeared on BBC 2’s Great British Garden Revival and Big Dreams Small Spaces, as well as ITV News and BBC 1’s The One Show, BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme, and BBC Radio 2. Nick’s horticultural media career spans some 15 years, during which time he worked as an editor for Garden Answers and Garden News, moving on to write freelance for BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine, RHS The Garden, The Mail, The Times and The Telegraph.  He currently has regular columns in BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine and Garden News.   Nick’s first book ‘Chelsea Physic Garden – A Companion Guide’ was published in 2014. His second book ‘365 Days of Colour in your Garden’ was published in 2015 and has been a best-seller ever since.  His third book ‘Revive Your Garden’ was published in April 2018.  A dynamic and entertaining public speaker, Nick has taught and lectured for Greenwich University, Chichester College, The English Garden School, The Mediterranean Garden Society, The Hardy Plant Society, and garden groups and associations all over the UK and overseas. He is a regular speaker at Gardeners’ World Live. His work takes him all over the world including designing and managing gardens in the UK, Spain, South Africa and Australia. Nick created his first Main Avenue Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2016 for which he received extensive plaudits from the press and judges and was awarded a Silver Gilt Medal. Nick was Head Gardener for London’s famous Chelsea Physic Garden, where he spent seven years redesigning the gardens and diversifying the plant collection. In “Confessions of a TV gardener” at Sherfield Village Hall on Monday 20 April 2026, Nick will share stories about his life and career as a gardener and on TV including his work as a regular presenter on BBC 2’s Gardeners’ World to over 2.5 million viewers. Expect an evening of information, inspiration, humour and insights “behind the scenes” from one of the UK’s best-known gardeners! Talk 45 minutes followed by Q&A for 15 minutes. WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT NICK BAILEY AS A SPEAKER (below are just two testimonials – of many!!) “Our Members thoroughly enjoyed Nick’s talk and fun anecdotes and were so impressed with his depth of expertise” Cuffley Horticultural Society “Nick’s talk was packed with creative ideas and expert advice, not to mention a good dose of fun. He’s a consummate professional who always delivers a great live performance” BBC Gardener’s World Live at the NEC Birmingham