Helen Yemmis a garden writer and lecturer. She writes a weekly column for theDaily Telegraph, Thorny Problems, as well as a monthly column in the English Garden magazine, and appears regularly on BBC television, presenting Gardening from Scratch on BBC2 and the daytime series GardeningWeek. She lectures at Coton Manor Gardening School in Northamptonshire, as well as traveling around the country talking to garden societies and charities.