About Jack Wallington

Biography

After twenty years working in the creative industries, I retrained between 2015 – 2017 at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to become a horticulturist and landscape designer, opening my studio full time in January 2018. Writing, art and nature have always come naturally to me – my first loves – and they all pointed to this new career after a key turning point in my life.

I have designed over 70 gardens across the UK and written columns and features for Gardeners’ World, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Gardens Illustrated, RHS The Garden and The English Garden. I released my first book, Wild about Weeds, in 2019 and A Greener Life in 2022, and was lucky that both were named The Times Gardening Book of the Year.

The combination of growing, showing and explaining what I do to help others has allowed me to communicate a new approach to gardens I create in my designs. This new wild way connects people to nature deeply and more meaningfully than other gardens can. It is explored in my weekly Wild Way newsletter in which I also share the study of wildlife and wildflowers from our remote farm in the Pennines.

Designs

2025 Cragvale, Yorkshire

2024 Midgley, Yorkshire

2024 Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire

2023 Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire

2023 Perth and Kinross, Scotland

2023 Huddersfield, Yorkshire

2023 Sheffield, Yorkshire

2022 Blackshaw Head, Yorkshire

2022 Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire

2022 Todmorden, Yorkshire

2022 Old Town, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire

2022 Dulwich, London

2022 Clapham Old Town, London

2021 Heptonstall, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire

2021 Old Town, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire

2021 Pecket Well, Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire

2021 Taunton, Somerset

2021 Clapham Old Town, London

2021 Wandsworth, London

2021 Battersea, London

2021 Clapham Old Town, London

2021 Myatt’s Fields, Brixton, London

2021 Holmfirth, Yorkshire

2020 Herne Hill, London

2020 Clapham Old Town, London

2020 Chislehurst, London

2020 Clapham Old Town, London

2020 Fulham, London

2020 Belsize Park, London

2019 Brickland, London

2019 Balham, London

2019 Fulham, London

2019 Abbeville Village, Clapham, London

2019 Clapham Old Town, London

2019 Wimbledon, London

2019 Clapham Old Town, London

2019 Clapham, London

2019 Clapham Old Town, London

2019 Clapham Old Town, London

2019 Battersea, London

2019 Stockwell, London

2019 Leyton, London

2019 Oval, London

2019 Hitchin, Hertfordshire

2019 Clapham Old Town, London

2019 Balham, London

2019 Plaistow, London

2019 Sevenoaks, Kent

2019 Barnes, London

2019 Braughing, Hertfordshire

2019 Bromley, London

2019 Byfleet, London

2018 Abbeville Village, London

2018 Clapham Old Town, London

2018 Edgware, London

2018 Kew, London

2018 Wandsworth, London

2017 Dulwich, London

2017 Camberwell, London

2017 Clapham, London

2017 Clapham, London

2017 Kensal, London

Awards

The Times Gardening Book of the Year 2022

The Times Gardening Book of the Year 2019

Environmental Journalist of the Year 2022 (finalist, GMG)

Garden Blog of the Year in 2017 (winner, GMG)

Gardening Book of the Year 2020 (finalist, GMG)

Garden Journalist of the Year 2020 (shortlist, PPA)

The Drum Top 50 Most Influential People in Social Media

TV

Gardener’s World | BBC

Big Dreams, Small Spaces | BBC

This Morning | ITV

Writing

The Telegraph (gardening columnist since 2018)

The Guardian

Gardener’s World Magazine

Gardens Illustrated

RHS The Garden

The English Garden

Bloom

Rakes Progress