Welcome to the website of Daphne Ledward, gardener, author and broadcaster.

The site will be updated on a regular basis, giving you hot tips and hints and the chance to browse Daphne's latest books. You can also find out all about the lady who has helped, through her books and advice, many green-fingered novices.

Daphne began her gardening life in 1972 as a freelance designer and contractor. Her broadcasting career started in 1980 on BBC Radio Lincolnshire making her the first woman gardener on radio. She later joined Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time, followed by appearances on BBC1 North's Gardeners Direct Line. ‘Garden Hopping' for UK Style took Daphne and husband John all around Britain in search of gardens.

For many years she was the gardening expert on the Jimmy Young Show - Radio 2 and still has a regular gardening slot on BBC Radio Lincolnshire. Over the years she has written 16 gardening books and also writes for Garden News as well as giving gardening talks and lectures around the Country.

Daphne has a small garden around her thatched cottage, but also a five-acre plot close by where she grows vegetables and is developing a woodland and wild flower meadow.