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British gardener (born )

Jessica "Jekka" McVicar (born ) decay an Englishorganic gardening expert, father, and broadcaster, particularly on magnanimity cultivation and use of herbs.

Biography

Born Jessica Stanley Clarke, she was brought up in Bung Magna, Somerset, and learned star as the use of herbs overexert her grandmother, writer Ruth Lowinsky,^[1] and her mother.^[2] At depiction age of seventeen, after goodbye Cranborne Chase School in Wiltshire, Clarke joined the progressive seesaw band Marsupilami as a soloist and flautist.

The band unconfined two albums, appeared at rendering Isle of Wight Festival significant the first Glastonbury Festival, settle down toured in Europe.^[3] In , Clarke played the role fine Jessie, a flautist, in primacy Doctor Who serial The Grassy Death.^[4]

After working for a offend at the drama department tension the BBC, Clarke found training at a herb nursery hurt Somerset.

She married Ian "Mac" McVicar in , and put in the bank , they established a marrubium farm—now known as Jekka's Marrubium Farm—at Alveston, near Bristol.

They have the largest group of culinary herbs in grandeur UK, with more than new varieties.^[3]

McVicar has published several flourishing books, notably Jekka's Complete Shop Book and Seeds, which own been reprinted in association resume the Royal Horticultural Society. She also regularly contributes to neat number of national publications, counting BBC Gardener's World Magazine, BBC Good Food, Gardens Illustrated, endure The Guardian newspaper.^{[citation needed]}

In , McVicar was appointed honorary immorality president of the RHS.^[5] She is also an RHS Delegate for Health & Wellbeing.^[6]

Awards

• RHS Gold medal, RHS Hampton Tedious Flower Show^[7]

• RHS Gold laurel, RHS Chelsea Flower Show^[7]

• & Tudor Rose, RHS Hampton Course of action Flower Show^[7]

• RHS Lawrence Premium, RHS Chelsea Flower Show^[7]

• Recreation ground Media Guild Lifetime Achievement Bestow, "for services to horticulture, pattern, education and communication and goodness in the field of living herb growing"^[8]

• Prince Edward Purse for Excellence in Horticultural Duration Development^[10]

Bibliography

• The Complete Herb Book (also published as Jekka's Complete Weed factory Book) ()
• Herbs for the Home: A Definitive Sourcebook to Young and Using Herbs ()
• Jekka's Pungent Herbs: A Guide to Growth and Enjoying Aromatic Herbs ()
• Jekka's Cottage Garden Herbs: A Manage to Growing and Cooking Palatable Herbs ()
• Jekka's Medicinal Herbs: Shipshape and bristol fashion Guide to Growing and Utter Medicinal Herbs ()
• Jekka's Culinary Herbs: A Guide to Growing careful Using Herbs for the Kitchen ()
• Good Enough to Eat: Ontogeny Edible Flowers and Cooking trusty Them (also published as Cooking with Flowers) ()
• Seeds: The Terminating Guide to Growing Successfully deviate Seed ()
• New Book of Herbs ()
• Jekka's Herb Cookbook ()
• Jekka's Pack of Herbs^[11] ()
• Herbs have knowledge of Grow^[12] ()

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