Naomi Slade
Journalist, author and garden designer
Naomi Slade is a journalist, author and designer specialising in gardening, environment and lifestyle. A regular contributor to magazines including Gardens Illustrated and The English Garden and RHS The Garden, she has a long-running column in Garden News magazine, based on her own small garden and in 2022 she won the Garden Media Guild Practical Journalist of the Year Award.
Recent articles by Naomi Slade
The perfect spring garden with bulbs and blossom galore with expert tips on how to make yours look this good
Alongside his Midlands nursery, John Massey has created a glorious garden that has been allowed to mature gradually
It's wild garlic season so you need to be careful of these plants - but they can look great in the garden too
The lush, marbled foliage of arums brightens up dark corners, in the dry shade under trees or alongside snowdrops. Here's how to grow them.
A well-behaved alternative to bamboo, these grass-like evergreens are great year-round
Defying easy categorisation, restios are evergreen plants that offer eye-catching details, attractive stems and grow rapidly in spring
Plants for flood-prone gardens: the plants that will survive a flood
With extreme wet weather events becoming more frequent, writer and designer Naomi Slade picks the plants that are best for flood-prone gardens