if your garden is bigger than a courtyard, but smaller than an acre

Alexandra Campbell

Alexandra Campbell

Author • Journalist • Video Creator

Alexandra Campbell is a writer, communicator and founder of The Middlesized Garden. With a long career in national journalism, she uses key research and interviewing skills to uncover practical, experience-based advice from leading garden designers, horticulturists and growers. Her aim is to make the expert advice on The Middlesized Garden clear, effective and achievable for every gardener. She also writes about direct personal experience from her own garden.

  • Creator of The Middlesized Garden YouTube channel (230,000+ subscribers, 30+ million views)
  • Writer of The Middlesized Garden blog (1M+ views per year)
  • Co-Chair of the Garden Media Guild
  • Accredited Coach for Writers (NAWE/Arvon/RD1st)
Alexandra Campbell

Alexandra interviews the professionals who are shaping gardening today, including Fergus Garrett, Arit Anderson, Jamie Butterworth, Charlotte Rowe, Joe Swift, James Alexander-Sinclair, Rosy Hardy, Tom Brown, Errol Fernandes and many others leading growers, designers and head gardeners. She brings over thirty years of journalistic experience—fact-checking, asking clear questions and verifying details directly with experts—to ensure accuracy and trust.

Selected awards and recognition:

  • Finalist, GMG TV & Video Documentary Feature of the Year 2025
  • Finalist, GMG Blog of the Year (2021)
  • Finalist, Garden Media Guild Broadcast of the Year (2020)
  • Finalist Brilliance in Blogging 2018
  • Finalist, Property Press Awards – Garden Journalist of the Year (2017)
  • National Home Improvement Council Journalist of the Year 1995
  • Finalist, PPA Journalist of the Year (1987)
  • Finalist, Catherine Pakenham Award for Young Journalists
  • Finalist, Vogue Talent Contest 1978
Alexandra Campbell

Experience

Alexandra spent more than three decades writing features for many of the UK’s leading newspapers and magazines. She’s known for clear, lively writing that demystifies complex topics and brings stories to life.

  • Freelance contributor to The Times, The Independent, Good Housekeeping, Ideal Home, House & Garden, You Magazine and FT How To Spend It
  • Managing Editor at Good Housekeeping (1991–95)
  • Associate Editor at Harpers & Queen (1989–90)
  • Assistant Editor/Health & Beauty Editor at SHE Magazine (1986–89)
Alexandra Campbell

Author of over 20 books

Alexandra has been published by both fiction and non-fiction publishers, including Penguin, Little Brown and Cico Books.

She has written 11 novels, under the names Alexandra Campbell and Nina Bell and 10 non-fiction books, mainly on interiors, working with designers and stylists, Liz Bauwens, Nina Campbell, Kelly Hoppen and Body Shop entrepreneur Anita Roddick. She has also written the Middlesized Garden Guide to Garden Privacy.

Education

Alexandra has a degree (BA Hons) in Archaeology, Philosophy & Spanish from Bristol University.

Alexandra Campbell

Co-Chair Garden Media Guild

Alexandra is also currently the co-chair of the Garden Media Guild, a network of gardening writers, photographers, broadcasters and influencers. The aims are to support gardening media professionals in their careers and to raise the standards of communication in gardening. The Garden Media Guild Awards are judged by top professional garden and media experts. They are the stamp of excellence and horticultural accuracy.

(GMG photographs by Jonathan Ward & Andrea Gilpin)

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