'Garden Advisor, Horticultral Speaker, Radio and TV Broadcaster, Historian and Designer'

Horticultural Speaker

Janette Merilion is a well known international horticultural speaker, lecturer and historian with a successful garden design business based in central Lincolnshire.
​A registered speaker of the Royal Horticultural Society and her list of horticultural talks ranges from seasonal flowers to garden design through the ages.

Horticultural Speaker

Janette Merilion is a well known international horticultural speaker, lecturer and historian with a successful garden design business based in central Lincolnshire.
​A registered speaker of the Royal Horticultural Society and her list of horticultural talks ranges from seasonal flowers to garden design through the ages.

About Janette Merilion

Janette Merilion is a registered horticultrual speaker of the Royal Horticultural Society and her list of talks ranges from seasonal flowers to garden design through the ages.
Janette Merilion Horticultural Speaker

Lincoln-based, Janette travels the world giving regional, national and international talks to numerous garden and horticultural societies and gardening organisations including:​​

  • Botanical gardens
  • University of the Third Age
  • Gardening societies
  • Women’s Institutes
  • International cruise lines
'The photography was superb, clear and sharp while the words not only educated but also entertained..............The best talk we have had this year, Janette is a walking encyclopaedia'.
Jennifer Trehane BSc Hort President
Ferndown & District Horticultural Association Dorset
Garden Design Speaker

To see Janette's forthcoming public speaking engagements and to check availability, follow the link to her Diary of events

Janette Merilion - Horticultural Speaker based in Lincolnshire Work to Date

Janette Merilion’s range of work is extensive both in size and character.

Her garden design projects include suburban gardens, large country estates, newly-built properties and period gardens.

Child-friendly gardens have been created for schools, low-maintenance gardens for hotels and public houses, and sensory gardens for the disabled; an ongoing project is a conservation area planted to attract birds and other wildlife.

Janette uses her years as an expert garden designer and now focuses her time as a horticultural speaker.

Garden Design Speaker

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01526 860 270

Illustrated talks

Over many years Janette has built up a comprehensive knowledge of gardening past and present.

Much of this is shared with the growing number of people who attend her presentations throughout the country. Following is a list of her most popular lectures, each lasting approximately one hour.

101 of my Favourite Plants

A talk that shows plants that will work hard for you, providing interest for more than one season, with their colour, perfume or form.

A Calendar of Colour

This talk covers plants that will provide all year round interest, as well as looking at the appropriate birthday plants for each month.

Birds, Butterflies and Bees

All the information you need to plant up your garden to encourage wildlife to visit. Everything from blackbirds to hoverflies and butterflies to hedgehogs.

Janette Merilion's diary of events

The Scented Garden speaker

The Scented Garden

Holywell/Needingworth Garden Club
Overcote Lane
Needingworth
Cambs

February 2025- Tuesday 7.30 pm

Garden Design Speaker

A Calendar of Colour

Walpole Gardeners Club
St Peter’s Parish Hall
Church Road
Walpole St Peter, Cambs

March 2025- Thursday 7.30 pm

Subject to be confirmed

Burgh le Marsh Gardening Club
The Mill
Burgh le Marsh
Lincolnshire

April 2025 - Wednesday 2.00 pm

Please send any enquiries to by phone, letter or using the email connection.

If you want to see if Janette is available for your meeting dates please complete the form

Address:

Lavender Cottage, Victoria Street, Billinghay, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN4 4HQ

Telephone:

01526 860 270