In 2016 Frances joined BBC’s Gardeners’ World doing a few strands for the programme, one on vegetable seed trials which she worked on from her local RHS garden (RHS Rosemoor) and another on gardens situated in extreme locations.

Frances is involved with the RHS campaign for school gardening and is passionate about enthusing young people to get into horticulture. She has worked on a number of community gardening projects in the South West and assisted in the redevelopment of some coastal gardens that were damaged by the storms of 2014. 

Frances is a popular choice for gardening talks and has appeared at Blenheim Palace Flower Show, Hampton Court Flower Show and the Eden Project Green Fingers Festival to name a few. Hailing from Deal in Kent, she completed her BSc in Horticulture with Plantmanship at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 2013, and now lives in Devon. Frances got into gardening from an early age, helping out around the garden at home, and after overly ambitiously designing a terraced landscape in a planter (given to her by her mum), age 7, she was hooked. 

Frances’ first book, First Time Gardener, was published in 2015 and she has kept on publishing ever since. In 2022, she published The Modern Gardener, which is about managing carbon footprint and engaging with wildlife as well as just gardening. In 2024 her next book A Year in a Small Garden will be published; the book is structured around the stages of building her small garden, and branches out to include small community gardens Frances works with.