Jane Wrigglesworth, 55, is a well-known gardening writer who has just released her first book, The Everyday Herbalist.
How would you sum yourself up in four words?
I’d say flowers, herbs, sustainability and creativity.
You’ve recently become a naturopath – what led you to that?
I’m in my final year of studying, so I’m doing a few clinics before I graduate. When I was about 10 years old, we visited a herb farm and I remember the guide telling us about all the different herbs. Even at that age, I was fascinated that you could have herbs for headaches or herbs for coughs and colds, or herbs for first aid and beauty. So that was kind of what started me off and I came away with a herb book, which I still have to this day. But then when I was 37, I was really sick and had a bleeding stomach, and I had all sorts of problems like a gut imbalance of good and bad bacteria,
