Abbie Salisbury – Independent PR – specialising in lifestyle including retail, fashion, beauty, health, fitness, children’s and baby products

Abbie spent the first half of her PR career with London agencies working across an impressive range of blue chip consumer accounts which included Gillette, Hellmann’s, Granada TV, The Observer, The Sanctuary and Volvo. Since 2002, she has worked as a freelance for many PR consultancies requiring an extra dynamic to their team. In this role, she has put her energetic PR skills to good use working on fashion and retail clients BAA Retail and Bluewater, cosmetic beauty accounts Laser Lipo and Smartlipo, luxury French skincare house Collin Paris, the Surrey-based health centre for dealing with addiction Life Works, sport and fitness accounts such as the Daily Mail Ski Show and Slendertone, the children’s wonder gadget Tamagotchi, as well as a number of small on-line fashion boutiques, mother/baby accessories and health products. Passionate about PR and highly motivated, she is committed to delivering excellent results for clients by successfully securing countless pieces of national media coverage in ‘A’ list titles.

Lindsay Swan – Independent PR – specialising in horticulture, environmental, educational and charity PR

Lindsay works with the Conservation Foundation and the educational and environmental charity Roots & Shoots. She is also a trustee of the Venkatraman Memorial Trust, providing educational facilities for children in Southern India. Lindsay was recently Head of Communications and PR for In Kind Direct, one of The Prince’s Charities. Prior to that with her consultancy Holder Swan PR, she ran the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show campaigns for the Royal Horticultural Society for 8 years working closely with garden designers and other exhibitors, as well as major media partners and during this time facilitated the production of Greenfingers, an international feature film. Other gardening related clients have included The English Gardening School, Oxford College of Garden Design, The Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Society and Woodland Publishing. Lindsay has handled a broad variety of clients including other organisations active in the area of conservation and the environment. www.lindsayswan.co.uk

Andrea Jones – Photographer – specialising in plants and gardens

Andrea Jones, FRSA, is one of the world’s leading plant and garden photographers, whose images appear regularly in many magazines and newspapers worldwide, for example Gardens Illustrated, Garden Design (USA), House & Garden, Country Living, Daily Telegraph and The Independent. In addition to her work for the media Andrea’s images have appeared in a number of books including Bold Plants and Grasses, and Bamboos, both by Noel Kingsbury, Lost Gardens by Jennifer Potter, Hardscape by Ann-Marie Powell, Virgin Gardener by Paul Thompson and in 2005 she completed her first solo book project Plantwords, a remarkable photographic collection of the intimate details of plant life. Andrea exhibits her work around the world and undertakes selected commissions for companies. In addition she runs the Garden Exposures Photo Library, an ever expanding collection of photographs from around the globe including not just plants and flowers but landscapes, food, gardens shows and gardening details. www.andreajones.co.uk