Author Victoria Summerley is a national newspaper journalist, who has worked on the Evening Standard, The Observer, The Independent and the i newspaper.
Victoria first wrote about gardening when Max Hastings, then editor of the Evening Standard, asked her to interview Terence Conran about his design for the Standard’s Chelsea Flower Show garden in 1999.
In 2010, she won the Journalist of the Year award from the Garden Media Guild. As a result, she was commissioned to write Secret Gardens of Cotswolds, Great Gardens of London and The Secret Gardeners, working with photographer Hugo Rittson Thomas.
She lives in the Cotswolds, where she opens her garden for the National Garden Scheme.