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Lady Tania Compton
Tania lived in France and Spain for six years in her twenties and developed her love of gardening after success with a packet of ipomoea seeds in Ibiza. Stints gardening at Tintinhull for Penelope Hobhouse, East Lambrook Manor and Barnsley House preceded a design course at The English Gardening School where she met her husband the botanist, Dr Jamie Compton. Tania spent twelve years as Gardens Editor for British House & Garden before resuming work as a designer and is currently the contributing Gardens Editor for The World of Interiors. Publications to date include Dream Gardens with well-known gardens photographer Andrew Lawson and The Private Gardens of England. Tania helps steer the programming committee as a Trustee of the Garden Museum and spends spare time embellishing six acres of meadow in Wiltshire and dyeing embroidery thread with plants from her garden.
Photo credit: Sabina Ruber