Lia leendertz biography definition
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Lia Leendertz
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Lia Leendertz
Lia was born in Bristol and trained in horticulture at Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. After her training she went immediately into a trainee journalist position at the Royal Horticultural Society’s magazine The Garden.
Lia leendertz biography definition
Having learned her trade she worked on gardening magazines and then moved back to Bristol to write freelance.
She very soon secured her first column, in the Guardian’s weekend magazine sharing a page with legendary garden writer Christopher Lloyd and later with Carol Klein, and went on to write this column for ten years.
She has since written columns for the Telegraph’s gardening section and for The Garden magazine as well as several gardening books.
On moving to Bristol she and her husband took on an allotment and Lia’s interest in growing and cooking her own produce took off.
She has run successful pop up food events in Bristol and wrote a cookery book based on the delicacies that can only be grown yourself, called ‘Peta