8th July 2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Marina Christopher is a nurserywoman who runs Phoenix Perennial Plants a small specialist working nursery that propagates and grows plants on site. It specialises in hardy herbaceous plants attractive to pollinators, other beneficial insects and birds all grown in loam-based bespoke compost.
Articles on the nursery have been published in The Garden, The Telegraph and Gardens Illustrated, and the nursery is often mentioned as a supplier for Garden Designers exhibiting at The Chelsea Flower Show, Malvern, Hampton Court, Tatton Park and Chatsworth.
Marina is an RHS Trials Chair and has been on Trials judging panels since 2000 and is currently a corresponding member of the RHS Herbaceous Committee. She gives talks using plant material as props rather than slides or Power Point and teaches for the Plant School, KLC and previously for the English Gardening School.