Career
She is also known for writing several books on gardening for specific conditions. She has lectured throughout the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and Germany. Construction of the Beth Chatto Gardens began in 1960 as a garden attached to the Chatto family home on land that had previously belonged to the Chatto family fruit farm.
lieutenant had not been farmed as the soil was considered too dry in places, too wet in others and the whole area had been allowed to grow wild with blackthorn, willow and brambles.
The only plants that survive from the earliest days are the ancient boundary oaks surrounding the Garden. comprise a varied range of planting sites totalling five acres, including dry, sun baked gravel, water and marginal planting, woodland, shady, heavy clay and alpine planting, and now include the Gravel Garden, Woodland Garden, Water Garden, Long Shady Walk, Reservoir Garden and Scree Garden. lieutenant was the development of these sites that prompted Beth Chatto to write books on gardening with what could be considered as "problem areas" using plants that nature has developed to survive in differing conditions.
Today Beth Chatto continues to work within the Beth Chatto Gardens, write for international and national press and appear in international media. In January 1975 Beth Chatto created a small winter garden at one of the Royal Horticultural Society Halls, London SW1.
More exhibits followed and eventually the Beth Chatto Gardens "Unusual Plants" exhibition arrived at the Chelsea Flower Show.
Exhibits by "Unusual Plants" were awarded ten consecutive Gold Medals at the Chelsea Flower Show from 1977 to 1987 (she did not exhibit in 1983). Exhibits by can still be seen at the Tendring Hundred Show in Essex. 1987 awarded the Lawrence Memorial Meda