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Wildlife gardening with Jenny Steel

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Jenny was born in Oxford and has, until recently, always lived in Oxfordshire. She has now moved to rural Shropshire where her new wildlife garden is beginning to take shape. She was educated at Oxford University, where she gained a Master's Degree in Plant Ecology, carrying out research in the famous Wytham Woods. As a keen gardener, her interest in plants naturally combined with her passion for wildlife, and her expertise in wildlife gardening grew to the extent that she set up a plant nursery, specializing in wildflowers, native shrubs and trees and cottage garden nectar plants. As the nursery took off, she found she was in demand to teach courses, give talks and write about wildlife gardening, and she eventually decided to close the nursery to concentrate on teaching and writing about wildlife gardening, natural history and the countryside.

Jenny has worked with a great variety of organisations including the Royal Horticultural Society, English Nature, Atropos, Ernest Charles, the Adult Residential Colleges Association (ARCA), Growing Native, Complete Gardens and the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust. She is currently working with Haiths, Oxfordshire County Council, Usbornes Books, Osmia Publications, the Shropshire Wildlife Trust, Wiggly Wigglers and the Guardian Unlimited, the website of the Guardian newspaper. She first appeared on television in a Horizon programme which was made about the wildlife studies that have been undertaken in Wytham Woods in Oxfordshire by scientists over many years. Jenny and her Oxfordshire garden have featured on television programmes such as Gardener's World, How Does Your Garden Grow, The Oxford Channel and the BBC News. She has also contributed regularly to BBC Radio Oxford as a wildlife expert.

Jenny's guides to Wildlife Gardening can be found in many mail order catalogues, Royal Horticultural Society shops, The Lost Gardens of Heligan, and Notcutt's Garden Centres. Butterfly Conservation supply her Butterfly Gardening book. She has written for BBC Easy Gardening Magazine, the Countryman, the Oxford Times and Oxford Mail, Butterfly Conservation, Spaces Magazine and the Daily Express. She currently writes a regular column for Organic Gardening Magazine and contributes to Haiths.com with monthly wildlife gardening tips, wildlife news and book reviews. She is currently writing a book on Wildflower Gardening plus a book with the Wiggly Wigglers team on their wonderful new wildlife garden in Herefordshire. She also supplies wildlife photographs to a variety of organisations.

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