‘My beautiful dahlias have given me a dazzling new career’
Sep 01, 2022
4 minutes
When Andie McDowell set herself a challenge in 2020 – to transform her unassuming Oxfordshire garden into a riot of colour and open it under the National Garden Scheme three months later – she wasn’t to know that it would be the beginning of an extraordinary new venture.
‘Before the pandemic struck, I had a really successful wedding video business with a team of six and hundreds of bookings in place,’ she explains. ‘Overnight, everything collapsed as weddings were cancelled and we had to go into liquidation. It was a nightmare.’
To give her something to focus on, she and her family – husband Johnny and their children Mollie, Oscar and Alice (now 13,
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