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Jamie Butterworth is a plantsman, an author and broadcaster: he is a contributor to the ITV show Love Your Weekend[1] and the BBC's Gardeners' World.
Early Life
[edit]Butterworth was born in Wakefield in Yorkshire in 1994 and grew up there with his two parents, his brother and his sister. Aged 15, Butterworth started working in plant nurseries, by the age of 16, he was a finalist in BBC3's Young Gardener of the Year. Butterworth always knew he wanted to work in horticulture and attended Askham Bryan College in York before going on to study at RHS Garden Wisley, Surrey, leaving in 2015 with a distinction in the Diploma in Practical Horticulture.
Career
[edit]One of Butterworth's first jobs in horticulture was working as a Show Plant Manager, liaising with designers at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show
In 2013 Butterworth co-founded YoungHorts, a social media movement (from 2013–2016) to inspire more young people into the world of horticulture, showing them what an important and rewarding career horticulture can be.
In 2016, at the age of 21, Butterworth became the youngest ever RHS Ambassador, joining leading industry experts such as Alan Titchmarsh, Mary Berry and Carol Klein.
In 2019, early in his career, he designed 'The Wedgwood Garden' at RHS Chatsworth Flower Show 2019, winning all four primary medals: Gold, Best Show Garden, Best Construction and People's Choice Award - the only person to have done that at an RHS show.
At the start of 2020, a couple of months before Covid, Butterworth opened the doors to Form Plants, his nursery. During Covid, Butterworth was responsible for planting and delivering a large garden at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital which was opened by His Majesty the King (then HRH Prince of Wales) and the then health secretary Matt Hancock in May 2020.
Butterworth has delivered 3 RHS gold-medal winning gardens, as well as a further gold medal-winning Main Avenue garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show for Korean designer Jihae Hwang[2] in 2023.
Butterworth grew the plants for Carol Klein's garden at RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2023 and co-designed the main feature garden in 2024 at RHS Hampton Court.
In May 2025, Butterworth and his team grew the plants for, and delivered, Monty Don's 'RHS and Radio 2 Dog Garden[3]' at RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Media appearances include presenting on Gardeners' World (debut in 2023), regular slots on ITV's Love Your Weekend, as well as radio, including BBC Radio London, Talk Radio and BBC Berkshire
Selected publications
[edit]Butterworth is the author of RHS 50 Plants You Can't Kill (Mitchel Beazley 2019). His new book What Grows Together will be published by DK Books on 11 September 2025
What Grows Together ISBN-13 : 978-0241723074
RHS 50 Plants You Can't Kill ISBN-13 : 978-1784725891
References
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- ^ https://www.itv.com/watch/love-your-weekend-with-alan-titchmarsh/10a0437
- ^ "Garden Designer & Environmental Artist Ji-Hae Hwang".
- ^ "RHS and BBC Radio 2 Dog Garden". www.rhs.org.uk.
- ^ "Who is Jamie Butterworth? Meet the new Chelsea Flower Show presenter whose behind the scenes rise has been remarkable". 15 May 2025.
- ^ "Meet the team".
- ^ "Jamie Butterworth "humbled" to be joining presenter lineup for BBC's Chelsea coverage". 19 May 2025.
- ^ "Monty Don's Chelsea Flower Show dog garden in photos". 20 May 2025.
- ^ "Chelsea Flower Show 2025: The first garden designed by a dog". 6 May 2025.
- ^ "Gardeners' World star Jamie Butterworth: All you need to know". 22 September 2023.
- ^ "Wakefield designer Jamie Butterworth gets garden gold at Chelsea". 25 May 2022.
- ^ "Jamie Butterworth: 'Chelsea Flower Show has been a lot more wholesome this year'". 27 May 2022.
- ^ "BBC Three - Young Talent of the Year, 2011, Young Gardener of the Year".