Susie White

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Artist, Photographer, WriterGardening, Wildlife

North Pennines, Northumberland, Scottish Borders and the Lake District.

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Susie
White
Northumberland
UK
Artist, Photographer, Writer
Gardening, Wildlife

North Pennines, Northumberland, Scottish Borders and the Lake District.

Susie is a freelance writer, photographer, author, lecturer and artist. A lifelong and passionate gardener, she spent 23 years creating the much televised Chesters Walled Garden and now has a private garden where wildlife and naturalistic style mix happily. Susie writes about walks, travel, wildlife and gardening and for ten years has been contributing a regular Country Diary for the Guardian's 100 year old column.

Short Biography

Susie is a freelance writer, photographer, author, lecturer and artist. A lifelong and passionate gardener, she spent 23 years at Chesters Walled Garden on Hadrian’s Wall making it a place much loved by visitors. Her free flowing planting style uses herbs, wildflowers, childhood plants and unusual perennials. She recently created a new garden in a hidden valley in Northumberland, each step of the way being shared with readers of the English Garden magazine in a 2 year long series on making a garden from scratch.
Susie uses materials from the surrounding land, and writes articles on these heritage skills – drystone walling, cobble laying, hurdle making and green woodworking.
A regular walker, Susie uses her walks on the hills of Northumberland in her observations for her Guardian Country Diary.

Professional Activities

Susie contributes regular articles to the gardening press as well as and lecturing on Zoom (Listed in the RHS Register of Speakers). Susie has a wide range of photographs of herbs, unusual perennials, planting schemes, wildflowers, garden wildlife and northern gardens. She is Assistant County Organiser for the National Gardens Scheme in Northumberland. The English Garden magazine followed the creation of her new garden in a major series over 2 years. Collaborative work with children’s book illustrator and printmaker Kim Lewis led to a Hay Meadows exhibition amongst other collaborations. Susie has been garden columnist for the Northumbrian magazine for nineteen years and the garden columnist for My Weekly magazine for ten years.
As an artist herself, she is ideally placed for writing articles about artists and craftspeople. Recent articles for BBC Countryfile magazine include hay meadows, sheepdog breeding, garden moths, walking Isaac's Tea Trail and England's last hay rake makers. 

Recent publications

(Gardens of Northumberland and the Borders (Sanderson Books) Ten Principles of Garden Design (Vivays 2013) Contributor to Red 67 (BTO 2020) Contributor to North Country, an Anthology of Landscape and Nature (Saraband 2022)

Latest book - Second Nature: The Story of a Naturalist's Garden published by Saraband.